Hi everyone! I'm new here, but hoping to get active.

It's 2am as I type this, everyone is asleep, even my night owl friends, and I don't know what to do. Sleep, you might say, but I already got a good twenty minutes - half hour in, now I'm wide awake and ready to go. I'm banned from getting up too early or going to bed too late by my husband who, probably rightly, thinks enough sleep is good for one's mental health, but this is a man who lies down, is asleep before his phone screen dims, and stays there for seven hours, and only then wakes up, and I have no clue how he does it.

A solution to the lack of sleep could be mindfulness or meditation, which is something I get about thirty seconds into before going and doing something else before realising I should be sitting down being peaceful, I go back to it. I will continue to try (practice makes perfect!).

The alternative is medication. I had promethazine, which worked until it didn't. I have clonazepam, which I am refusing to take unless my hand is forced, because I hate it (spacy feeling, I lose my clarity, and I lose my control over my world), which my CPN seems to be vaguely surprised about (apparently refusing benzos is not the usual reaction they get). I have been offered zopiclone, which I hate even more because while it works, it only works while I take it, which one is not supposed to do for more than 7 nights (I think?) and then I go straight back to not sleeping. It doesn't really offer a solution only a plaster. I also can't stand the hangover. I have been offered zolpidem, which I thought was just the brand name for zopiclone but apparently not, which I've never had before so that is a possibility, at least to try. But it seems like a not-good-thing to take meds just to pass the time. I can wait the three hours no one is awake.

Are there any other ways to sleep?