Ugh! Slept badly last night, but don't think it was insomnia per se.

Woke at 2 - I think because my son had left on a light which was shining into my bedroom. I got up to turn it off, and I probably would have been able to get back into bed and go right back to sleep, but I found that my son was wide awake and hadn't been able to get to sleep at all that night. Not feeling sleepy at all. That worried me because his episodes often start with severe persistent insomnia. So I sat up with him for an hour or so. I was able to get back to sleep fairly easily once I returned to bed.

Not sure if that was insomnia or not. I think not. Even though I didn't feel sleepy while I was talking to my son - wide awake, in fact - I was woken by something in my environment and I could get back to sleep when I wanted to.

I'm becoming increasingly convinced that taking an antioxidant with fish oil is a good idea - even if you don't have insomnia. I just read this morning, for example, that fish oil consumption tends to lower vitamin E levels for some unknown reason. Possibly it's depleted because of the need to deal with oxidative stress from the fatty acid peroxidation?