Insomnia advice

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For the past few nights I've been suffering insomnia, and now I feel totally drained of energy (my legs feel dead even after walking downstairs). Also, I keep worrying about getting insomnia, which makes it harder for me to relax and sleep at night. Can anyone please give me advice on how to make sure I sleep properly? I hate feeling like this!

Just stay up and talk to us until you fall down.

Completely clear your head and meditate for a half hour straight, counts as a full nights sleep.

Take some Melatonin before going to bed. It's a sleep aid, a synthetic version of the hormone in your body that induces sleep. Works wonders for me! Just make sure you don't have to get up early the next day, or you'll feel really groggy.

Thanks for the advice! I think it might also help that my Mum's back from Scotland now, as her being away was a bit too big a change for me to cope with and was stressing me out, and at least now I'll have someone to hassle for aromatherapy ideas if I can't sleep tonight! Where do you get Melatonin from, though? If I can't sleep tonight, I might try it out sometime soon.

As I've mentioned in other posts, the new GE Reveal™ light bulbs give off natural white light, which isn't as good as the artificial sunlight lamps, but works well enough to help reset your biological clock and keep down on eyestrain.

Also, a good audio book helps me. Music is difficult to sleep to, as there are often memories, sometimes unpleasant ones, tied to it which get drudged up to the surface when you hear it again. Talk radio or audio books, however, don't have the memories of anything distressing tied to them. I mean, how often do you listen to an audio book outside of trying to sleep or relaxing on a trip?

There are also several anime which I recommend to watch at night while in bed:

•Azumanga Daioh
•Crest of the Stars/Banner of the Stars/Banner of the Stars II
•A.D. Police
•Gundam Wing
•InuYasha
•Bleach
•.hack//SIGN
•Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
•GTO (Great Teacher Onizuka)
•Blue Gender
•Fist of the North Star

Dont worry about it too much, a person only needs about 4 hours of sleep per night to keep going on like normal indefinately. So long as you are getting up at a resonable time, getting plenty daylight and exercise and eating right im sure everything will sort itself out.

Melatonin is widely available in pharmacies (or chemists, in the UK English). But that's only true in the US. I heard that in parts of Europe, Melatonin is highly regulated, so you might have a harder time finding it; I don't know the situation in England. In the worst case, you can try a classic remedy I like to use: a shot of cognac.