I can't remember if I have already posted on this topic, but I seldom have insomnia, but when I do, I masturbate. After a nice orgasm, I am so relaxed that it makes it much easier to get to sleep.
My psychiatrist prescribed me a drug most intended for management of bipolar depression and schizophrenia, that has the off-label (unapproved) side effect of working as an adjunct to help people on ADs with their insomnia. It's been fucking magic. I mean, my insomnia used to more so be that I preferred the night hours and my brain as on overload, but then it became seriously fucked and I tried melatonin but it only worked a few times, benzodiazepines failed to be useful, antihistamines that double as sleepers... nothing worked and I barely slept for 6 months. Some nights I'd be surviving on 20mins sleep. The only thing that helped was (unintentionally) coming off my ADs. Then I slipped into (worse) depression so bad that I was pretty sure I'd kill myself. I have had suicidal thoughts a lot but I'd never been so bad that I started looking for ideas and how to actually do it. Anyway, I digress. I've never been on a more stable anti-depressant it's just the higher dose affects my sleep so we decided to try Seroquel (quetiapine) and see how it went. It's not supposed to be addictive like benzos which is a plus. I take 25mg at bedtime... Takes me anywhere between 30 and 90 to flake it depending on what I've been doing but it's brilliant. It's not ideal as a long term solution - plus I often have really weird fucked up dreams and wake up extraordinarily groggy in the mornings (perhaps is time to start coffee) but I've never been so grateful and its helping to finally get the persistent depression under better control. I know it doesn't really help anyone but it is my "sort of" success story. What's unfortunate is that no matter how tired I am, without it I do not sleep. Or I sleep maximum 1.5hrs and wake up. Friday two weeks ago I had drinks with friends and didn't want to take it when we got home at 130am... I finally slept for forty minutes at 3pm the next day. It was ridiculous!