Here's an interesting story from U.S. News & World Report about using a special form of cognitive behavioral therapy to fix sleep problems instead of medication. This therapyis believed to helpeliminate the thoughts and behaviors that can make getting a good night's sleep much harder.
"CBT is no quick fix: People typically need between two and eight sessions to reap benefits, and it takes effort to implement a therapist's advice. But 'there's general consensus now,' says Gregg Jacobs, an insomnia specialist at the University of Massachusetts Medical School's Sleep Disorders Center, that CBT 'is the preferred and recommended first-line treatment' for chronic insomnia. It empowers patients to regain control over their sleep, and once habits are changed, they become a way of life, he says."
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I have trouble staying asleep. I wake every night anywhere from between 12:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. and am up for the rest of the night. This medicine helped me sleep, but also made me very depressed. It made me very angry and upset most of the time. I took this for about 3 months, until I got to the point that there was something very wrong with me and it was the medicine.