[Linda H]

Can’t fall asleep without meds (and most times even with meds). I’m tired, relaxed, comfortable, not stressed. As soon as I feel my “brain” drifting off, something feels like it’s snapping back to awake – this goes on for hours until I finally get up. Insomnia came on out of the blue about 6 months ago.

[Martin Reed]

Welcome to the forum, Linda. First of all, let me reassure you that you CAN fall asleep without meds! If you tried to force yourself to stay awake for five days, I think you would — at some point — find that you would fall asleep without any medication.

Of course, forcing yourself to stay awake for so long in order to fall asleep naturally isn’t constructive — but the theory here is simply to help you recognize that with enough wakefulness (in other words, when sleep drive becomes strong enough), you will fall asleep.

We can use sleep drive to our advantage by making sure we allot a regular and appropriate amount of time for sleep. At the current time, when do you normally go to bed, when do you get out of bed, and roughly how many hours of sleep would you say you get on a typical night?

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