I am trying to find out what is going on in my brain. I hardly am on the pillow when I fall asleep, but I wake up many times during the night - I barely sleep an hour or so and am awake. In the past few months, I fall asleep almost immediately after taking a pill (something that NEVER happened in my life before). My insomnia is of unknown etiology - I am not depressed, stressed out, unhappy. My problem is genetic since my son suffers the exact same fate. Many people have bouts of insomnia - not full blown, years-long insomnia. Quentin Regestein in Boston, who is supposed to be the man who knows the most about the mechanics of sleep.

I cannot get up and go to another room and do a mindless activity until I get sleepy. They receive about 6 hours of training in “sleep”. I have an amazing internist who doesn’t know the first thing about insomnia. I write to doctors throughout the US, looking for help. I tried everything that you might suggest. I cannot fall asleep without a Temazepam. I have been on sleeping pills almost constantly from 1976 until today April, 2019. Peter Hauri (very well known sleep psychiatrist) after 3 days at Sleep Clinic. I was diagnosed with insomnia in 1976 with Dr.

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