Well... I would never want to give the impression that meditation is a bad idea. But, after many years of dabbling with sitting meditation, off-&-on, (I still do some of it) I'd have to say my personal opinion is it is highly overrated as a mental health therapy. I presume that, if a person meditated faithfully day-in & day-out over the years, they would derive some benefit from it... maybe even some significant benefit. But I personally have never felt as though I derived any particular short-term benefit from it. Mostly it just seemed to be something that got in the way of everything else I had to do.

Personally I have derived much more satisfaction from doing such things as walking meditation & mindfulness yoga & tai chi. There is mention made, in Jon Kabat-Zinn's book: Full Catastrophe Living of a young woman who attended one of the stress reduction programs at the Massachusetts Medical Center. She was so riddled with anxiety that she simply could not sit still to participate in sitting meditation. But what she found was that she could do walking meditation. And so that's what she did.

I sometimes can't get to sleep at night. And other times, I wake up in the middle of the night & can't get back to sleep. What I will do is to get up & do walking meditation. We live in a one-level townhome. And so I walk slowly & quietly from front to back, around-&-around through our dark & quiet unit sometimes for an hour or even two. I hear the sounds of the city in the distance. Thoughts come-&-go. I allow them to arise-&-fade at their own pace. If an emotionally difficult thought or memory arises, I will breathe into it & perhaps even smile to it. I may even place a hand over my heart as a sign of lovingkindness & compassion for it. As the 11th century Tibetan Buddhist yogini said: "In other traditions demons are expelled externally. But in my tradition demons are accepted with compassion."

P.S. If you're really not all that familiar with meditation techniques, I would recommend that you seek some instruction in it. There are many different styles though. And you have to find one you feel comfortable with. If you don't like it you won't do it. You do want to be careful, though, in choosing an instructor. There are lots of so-called teachers out there who, in reality, may or may not really know much of anything about what they're teaching. I personally am partial to the writings of the American Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön. But in terms of sitting meditation, I prefer the technique taught by Jon Kabat-Zinn in Full Catastrophe Living. So that's what I do.