My experience with insomnia is extensive. I suffer from PTSD, have far too active a mind, and hate taking drugs to help me sleep.

I've found a blue light filter on my phone, coupled with a healthy diet (no caffeine after 4) and forcing myself to go to bed at a decent time helps.

Audiobooks, soft music, transcendental meditation, podcasts... are all preferable to looking at a lit screen. But generally I find white noise to work the best. A fan, generally.

Off and on.

I ma not a psychiatrist, but happen to know that insomnia is a symptom of anxiety and/or depression.

Alprazolam, zopiclone, diazepam, temazepam, etc... Pick one, no need to suffer...

Cannabis bath soaks are wonderful, and non psycho active. I feel badly for people that live in states that are still backwards about the prohibition. They are missing the science. CBDs and other Cannabanoids get rid of all pain, make on relax with no negative long term effects.

I have ALWAYS had insomnia. Doctors tried medicating me as a kid, but it either didn't work or it worked too well. Then I just dealt with it in my teens where I once went nine days without sleep. I would have terrifying dreams when I did fall asleep. Then I self medicated for years and years. Now I am back to just dealing with it. I am used to it at this point. Nutrition and natural remedies are how I keep it at a reasonable level now. Exercise and stuff.

Oh man, welcome to my life. I have had chronic insomnia for so long I don't think I ever had good sleep patterns. I can share some of my solutions if you wish. They help me and after a while your body will fall into a rhythm and you don't need to use them as much.

I had severe sleep issues for years, until I participated in a sleep study at the Univ of FL.
I learned to change several pre-bed habits, and other mechanisms to help with falling
asleep, and more importantly, staying asleep. I did the study in 2011, and I've been sleeping better ever since.
If there are no sleep studies in your area, you could try searching online, perhaps google or youtube, for any information.

Hi. I sympathize completely. It seems to get worse all the time for me for no reason I can make out. I try reading, walking around, going to the kitchen for water and I have no solution so far. Tonight I'm watching television while I type and then off to bed. If I find something that seems to help consistently I will post it. In the meantime I do hope it gets better for you quickly - good luck!

Most nights for me. It happens so consistently, and for such a huge portion of my life, since early childhood, that I've come to the tentative conclusion that I must have some sort of circadian rhythm disorder. It can be very fatiguing for me to even hold to a lax schedule. And my current schedule is not lax.