That's really great, Slayer. Maybe you are sleeping better because you are on break and not as stressed? Whatever the reason, enjoy! Glad you will still be seeing your doctor Monday, so you can address the other issues too. Hope you have a great 3 weeks off!

If you feel asleep so fast that suggests a placebo effect. But if it helps you sleep, so what?

Proves how much is "in your mind" as the saying goes. And it's not just you, but to some extent most of us.

Just beware of an unhealthy dependency.

I am glad you are sleeping sound. The break should do you some good. Enjoy your time off.

Thanks for the responses guys. I think the couple main things I've realized is to listen to my feelings inside. It's obviously not ideal that I can tell I'm anxious, stressed, depressed, etc. but it's better to be able to identify them instead of ignoring them and wonder why I'm not sleeping or feeling the way I should. At least in my case I think I'm starting to understand what happened to me. Many years ago my major focus was basketball and then my body failed me and I went through a lot.

During this period of time I was in incredible pain. This caused me to have negative feelings such as depression which led to me not wanting to see anyone or making new friends/etc. Over the years I fixed(or at least the best I can) the physical pain but I become socially isolated and ignored emotions and feelings and things of that nature. You can't really teach yourself how to make up socialization/other skills that you lost for years in a day or two. It's not going to be easy but I think I know exactly what happened/is going on and it's just going to take a lot of time. The other really simple things that are seeming to help me are to stop caring about things I have no control over. I used to get incredibly frustrated to the point that it was detrimental.