[E@Sunnyvale]

My problem is that I cannot fall asleep. When my head hits the pillow, I start ruminating and worrying that I cannot sleep so it ends up being a self fulfilling prophecy. Does anyone else have this issue and please let me know if you have suggestions that worked.

[Chee2308]

Hello and welcome to the forum, some questions to get started:

1. How long have you had the issue?
2. Did you use to sleep late and recently decide to go to bed earlier (2+ hours earlier than your usual bedtime), thinking you needed to catch up on sleep or get up early for whatever reason, like starting a new job, early flight, new work shift etc?
3. Are you mostly a homely person and have a lot of free time? Are you getting enough sunlight exposure during the day?

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I know I use to worry about not sleeping and then I could not go to sleep. Now I say well got to get to sleep, I will eventually and got to get up tomorrow and go to the gym, my volunteer work or whatever I have planned. I think a positive attitude helps, planning what I am going to do and assuming I will get to sleep so I can do these things. Sometimes I just say time to go to sleep and I do, shut my eyes and rest and go with whatever happens. It seems simple but when I started ruminating and worry that is when the sleep problem got worse. I need to do nothing and that is what works. Quit trying to fix it. You will sleep when you get tired and eat when you get hungry. Basically it is the same thing.

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