Extreme insomnia all my life. Parents said "if one jot of light hit your face, you'd cry & be awake all night." I remember clearly being age 7, not sleeping for weeks & wanting to die. Then going into euphoria where I thought trees understood me. Told my father when I was 15 "I have this, it's manic-depression" while reading a book about Lord Byron, the poet who had severe manic-dep. Was misdiagnosed at 18 as having paranoid schizophrenia but I'd been suffering insomnia for months & had hallucinations from lack of sleep. Finally diag. at age 46! Now on good meds so I can usually sleep well