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I have had insomnia issues, on and off, for about a year now. I get up at 6 for school, but usually I have stayed up until 1-3 AM the night before. I sat my last exam after 1 hour 45 minutes of sleep...(managed to get A+ though :D) It started when I just had some trouble sleeping at night, and I would stay up a little late. That got more and more pronounced until I was staying up regularly until 3 AM. I started having issues with energy and memory retention in school, and I became less physically active. Although I was depressed before, I became even more depressed.

Now, I actually don't let myself sleep. I refuse to go to bed before 1, and feel weird going to sleep any earlier. I actually disallow myself to fall asleep before midnight—preferably until at least 1 or 1:30. I bargain with myself on how much sleep I allow myself to get: come on, two and a half hours tonight. You lazy, selfish pig, you got a whole three anf three quarters last night. You don't deserve more than two, even, but there's a quiz on Chapter 7 tomorrow. You can do it—I know you can! You can stay strong...to the point that I find myself relating to memoirs of anorexia.

What is wrong with me? Do I have chronic insomnia, or something else entirely? Is there a name for this sleeping disorder? If anyone can offer help, it would be much appreciated

Hmmm, I believe you have an early case of Nationstatitus, it usually accompanies exposure to nationstates. My advice is to drink lots and lots of caffeine.

Woah now.. " disorder " ? Its like me dad us'a say " I'm not a quitter "

That's definately not healthy. you don't want to listen to these jerks. Please, go talk to your school councillor, and probably your doctor.

Dude, seriously... Get some sleep. You have to *force* yourself to sleep in this situation.

If you need to wake up, and you can't get your self to go to bed, force yourself.

1) Stop Thinking
2) Walk to Bed
3) Get in



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Find some professional help.

if youre not sleeping during the day, yeah you have a problem. talk to the school councillor. explain it the same way you did here and i bet she can give/get you some good help with it.