You have to sleep. Without good sleep, our symptoms can quickly deteriorate.

Last month I ended up in the hospital for 8 days due to insomnia. I had been living on 2 or 3 hours of sleep for a couple of months.

Now I take meds to help me sleep (seroquel xr), and I also have lunesta to take if I need more than that. Sleep has to come before any worries about dependency. If you are building a tolerance to your sleep meds, talk to your pdoc about it. There are other things to try.