You ever done a sleep study Shorty? If it's a chronic problem, they may be able to help.
In my experience (having had severe sleeping problems my entire life, up until the last few years, and having had a lot of friends with similar problems), it's been one of 3 problems:
1. Diet & exercise (and bedtime)
2. Sleep apnea (see #1)
3. An actual sleeping disorder
I'll cut to the chase: most people don't want to do what it takes to fix the problem, because it requires changing a core life habit. Poor diet (ex. too much sugar, eating right before bed which in turns gives you energy, etc.) and lack of exercise (excess of energy at the end of the day when you get your second wind) are the root causes. But very few people are willing to change what they eat, when they eat, and exercise on a daily basis. And also what time they go to bed, which is important for most people's bodies.
When you bring that up to people who have sleeping problems, the immediate reaction is slush-brain mode - "yeaaaaah no, not gonna change any of that" with a defeated grin. Self-sabotage is a difficult issue to overcome! So, you have to really
want to fix it & be willing to do what it takes. Most people aren't, which is why everyone is up late on the Internet or watching TV.
Sleep apnea is the second most common problem I've seen, but 99% of the time, the root cause is being overweight, so getting in shape will fix nearly all examples of it. In rarer cases, you need surgery to fix a physical problem, but it's almost always a self-inflicted sleeping disorder due to weight. But that goes back to #1 - people don't want to do what it takes to change. And the last one, maybe you have an actual sleeping disorder. Some people have the delayed sleep phase thing & simply do better working at night & such.
For me in particular, most of my issues stemmed from food allergies, so once I removed the foods I was allergic to from my diet, I started sleeping a lot better - no more restless leg syndrome, no more lying in bed unable to sleep all night, etc. So that kind of goes along with the diet thing - cleaning up your diet to fix your issues is the majority of it, from what I've found.
