Welcome. I have had it since teens and it just gets worse for me:(

Thank you. Mine gets worse as each year goes by. It sucks. I wish that I could just go to sleep regularly.

Hey Brooks. Welcome aboard. Yes you'll find many people here who know quite a bit about what you're going through.

The good news is you can make this better. Many of us have. You can too. Let us know if you have questions.

Hypnos07, thank you. What are you doing or using to get to sleep? I've been sleeping good lately because I take Ambien 30mg, but it's still hard to deal with even if I am getting good sleep. As of now, mine is sort of under control. I get really down thinking that if I don't take my medication, I won't be able to sleep. My big problem now is just being down about it.

I understand about feeling down about having insomnia. It sucks, I've tried everything and I still have it. I am trying to make my peace with it and learn how to deal with it. I have met people on this website that have much worse medical conditions than I do, so I try to be grateful for the health and happiness I do have. Welcome to the group, it helps to converse with others and write your feelings out sometimes. This is a great place for support.

Hey, Sadie. This is a very nice group! It's nice to have people supporting each other. And yeah, I'm always down about it. People always tell me that it's just all in my head and that aggravates me very much because I know that it is a real problem. It makes me miserable at times but I'm trying to not let it get to me, but that can be very hard.

My take is the key is to find out the true underlying cause, because in reality sleep is as natural and normal as breathing. We shouldn't have to try and force it unnaturally with pills.

If you have an underlying medical condition, that's different. Then, with your doc, you can find some help with medicines.

But if you don't, and most insomniacs do not have an underlying medical problem, then you need to look at nonmedical solutions that get to the true root.

The true nonmedical roots of insomnia are typically some combination of bad sleep habits and excessive worry about the idea of sleep. Both of these are within your control right now to make better.

Hypnos07, I've had insomnia for almost my whole life and it still bothers me all of the time. You'd think I'd be used to it by now, but it just gets harder each day. I'm glad I've found this group because I've met a lot of great people.