I have an insanely hard time getting to sleep at night and always have. I toss and turn for hours before I fall asleep, and when I finally do fall asleep I sleep for 12 hours every single day. As you could probably guess this takes a serious toll on my life. I usually fall asleep around 7:00 or 8:00 AM and I usually wake up around 7:00 or 8:00 PM. I barely seen the sun anymore unless it is rising. As I type this I am excruciatingly tired because I did not sleep any last night. I am trying to stay awake all day so I can get my schedule on track, but as all of my other attempts, this one will probably fail. If I don't get 12 hours of sleep I feel tired and fatiuged all day. I would rather be tired than sleep my life away though. I fear there is nothing I can do about it. I take sleeping pills and they don't make me tired, I talked to my doctor and he just reccommended Melatonin which is a OTC sleeping pill. I can take eight of those suckers and still feel like I just woke up. I can't set alarm clocks to wake me up because I sleep right through them. When my parents try to get me up I talk back to the but have no reccollection at all later. I am tired of feeling like a vampire. I am home schooled and I'm getting behind on my school work, I did have a job but naturally my sleeping schedule did not allow that to happen long. Any suggestions?