Hello everyone,

For the last 7 months, I have dealt with serious sleeping issues. It began with minor difficulties falling asleep, then progressed to minor difficulty both falling and staying asleep, and has now become a severe problem for me insofar as it takes me hours to fall asleep at night (~3-4) and I wake up nearly every hour and toss and turn before falling back asleep.

I am an Honours student preparing to apply to graduate school, but my sleep problems are making it very difficult for me to complete schoolwork, attending classes and pay attention to lectures. I am getting very concerned, because I have a lot riding on graduate school and if these sleep problems continue I will be unable to complete my degree.

I am a healthy person. I exercise daily, am now drug-free, drink lots of water and completely avoid junk foods. Yet, in spite of my healthy lifestyle, I cannot sleep worth a damn. Although I have minor anxiety issues, my anxiety has never been a serious factor in my life and has not contributed much to my sleeping problems. The real issue is that when I go to bed, my mind wanders and wanders and wanders and I am unable to control where my thoughts go and what I am thinking about. It is like no matter how tired I am physically, as soon as I go to bed my mind becomes extremely active.

Has anyone ever had debilitating sleeping problems like this? I am in desperate need of help, I cannot go on like this. If you have overcome a similar problem, how did you do it? Any advice would be so greatly appreciated!

Thanks everyone.