Dear Miss Laura, I understand what you mean about lack of sleep. As long as I can remember I have had difficulty in sleeping and staying asleep. I'm bipolar and even in a manic depressive state all I do is lay around and don't want to get up...but I don't sleep. I am on 2 medications now. 1 for pdoc and it's a antihistimine and my reg doc gives me tamazepan. Those 2 do help at times. I don't know how to sleep without any medication. I have taken sleeping pills for years and the doc changes them because after a while they do not work. I am happy if I can get at least 5 hours of sleep. My body has adjusted to this but there are times of staying awake for 3 days gives me hullucinations and my mood really goes manic. I wish I could be like other people who fall asleep before their head hits the pillow.