I have been on the Chloral Hydrate and it worked but I needed higher and higher dosage I ended up very close to being addicted to it and needed to be taken off it.

My present physician of 13 years wont prescribe sleeping meds because in his experience of doing so the patients ended up needing higher and higher dosages due to their bodys built up a tolorance to them so now he advises benedryl which has diphenhyramine (sleep aid) in it most over the counter sleep aids have this and at the same dosage level and benedryl is cheeper then the over the counter sleep aids (and prescription ones too) I can get benedryl here for $1.99 for 24 pills. So thats what I use and yes it does help though I do have to take breaks now and then because my body does build up a tolorance for it.

So I use benedryl and relaxation visualization tape that my therapist and I made during a therapy session along with a routine of doing journaling and taking a long relaxing bath before bed.