Hi all.

Lately, my sleep issue is the point of argument/distress for me between me and my parents. My sleep issues started last year. At first, I had insomia, then I had frequent nightmares over what happened to me in the past.

As I sleep late everyday, I find it hard to be in school on time. What's worse was that if I were to be late, I would be marked as absent even if I'm late and arrived for class and that would affect my grades negatively. And when my parents would be notified, and they would start to nag and would say things like 'My future is doomed.' or 'Uou won't be able keep a job. 'There was once I woke up after 11 a.m. on a Saturday, and my mum went shouting at me at the top of her lungs over my sleep issues. She advised me to exercise everyday. The problem is that my schedule is already so tight to the point when I can't accomplised what I wanted to do within a day. Moreover, I felt that no matter how tired I am during the day, by the time when I was supposed to sleep, I still can't sleep.

My counselor did suggest me to take sleeping pills, but I wasn't and still isn't welcoming the idea of me taking sleeping pills.

Lately, I choose not to sleep because I felt that if I were to sleep, nightmares about my past would haunt me again and I wouldn't let them happened. I'm scared and tired all this nightmares that are happening. Even if I'm really tired, I wouldn't want to sleep.

Is anyone going through something similar? How do I with sleep issues like this?