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Thank you for your reply. I think I did not react in the right way as I did let insomnia take the lead – I have been on a sick leave for months at work and stopped many activities as I was not feeling well to enjoy them as before. My ruminations are mainly about how I will manage my sleep issue and what I should have done in the first place to overcome it. I was not lucky with the doctors I met from the start whose only answer was to prescribe strong medication as sleeping pills and xanax with no advice on how I could overcome my sleep issue. I even met an acupuncturist who told me I could die of insomnia which made me very worried and I had the bad idea to search on google and find articles about health issues related to insomnia and even a test made on rats that were prevented from sleeping for 2 weeks and died of it. Internet is not always a helper! I am also worried that the sleeping pills I took altered my ability to sleep as if my brain was not functioning well anymore. I stopped medication for months but my sleep is not improving… I am now trying to ignore my insomnia as much as I can by going on my everyday life as if I had 7 hours of sleep but it is still very hard to stop worrying and thinking about it all the time.

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