I've had sleep problems since I was a baby. My mom said I didn't sleep when I was a baby, and I remember early childhood memories of staying awake with my mind racing through nap time at home and at the babysitter's, then I remember watching the clock go round and round 3am 4am 5am etc. at age 8 or so, and it's been consistently bad into adulthood. During college I got probably 1-3 hours of sleep a night consistently, and that's still pretty standard for me in a depressive episode, during mania or hypomania I don't sleep at all for about a week and then I go into a coma for a day and start over or crash into depression. Right now I think I might be at baseline and I get a decent amount of sleep probably 4/7 days a week because of 160 mg geodon, 3 mg clonopin, and 10 mg ambien, but even with that nightly cocktail I still go sleepless about 3 nights a week. I cope with it fine though. I've always been able to get by on no sleep no problem. I'm not tired the next day at all, I just rev right up.