Sleepless nights: insomnia?

Try a hypoglycemic diet:
http://ehealthforum.com/health/topic119108.html

Helped me. Very hard to stick to at first, but keep at it and you'll feel much better, I promise.

try whacking it before you go to bed, use up some of that energy

Dysthymia is a mood disorder similar to the mood issues of Bi-Polar without the major mood swings. I have Dysthymia Schizoid which the schizoid makes me close down shop socially but you have to be signifigant enough to get through. If not I leave you in the cold, sorry.
As far of it affecting my sleep it's been really messed up sometimes I insomniate then I'll start sleeping normal for a while then I crash into a heavy sleepy period. I'm a coffee drinker so I think during my sleepy depressive mode while I'm drinking coffee I build up a coffee pool and if the coffee pool should get ignited then it's probably a long night and day ahead of Me. It sux but it's the nature of the beast.

Consider your sex; if female, it may be related to hormones. In the same vein, sleeplessness can be medically related.
Accept it for what it is; get up, entertain yourself; know that it won't last forever.
Search the Internet for "sleep hygiene".
Relax: try to 'decompress' and relax for 20 min before bed. It's normal for me to lie 20 min to 3 hours in bed before i'll get up. I'm usually really angered in the process. Try to let that go.
Try to relax your eyelids and eyeballs. Concentrate on that for a little while if it's not too frustrating. Sometimes it works for me.
Good luck

Try exercising and cut off on the caffeine.
Don't exercise two hours before bed and try melatonin in small doses (1-3 mg)
I also agree with "starving" yourself of sleep and resting the next night. Works for me like a charm!

If stress is the case then alcohol probably won't help because it causes an irregularity in your brain chemicals, giving you anxiety and making things worse.

Hope that helps!

I should update this...

It wet away for a while.. but since then my circumstances have changed yet again, I've changed counselors since then and I went through a period of being able to sleep. It has come back again though... I've also now been diagnosed with mild depression.

i have it too. i think i am depressed with my living situation right now. and i just don't know what to do i need help too!i want to sleep but my brain doesn't allow me to

I know this aint a good everyday thing but occasionally you can get drunk i mean that with emphasis a few beer and a couple of shots but if your on meds for sleeping than dont

Ahhhh yeah I had some real bad Insomnia back in 2008, eventually you will get so tired that you will just fall asleep and your sleeping patern will be restored, thats what happened to me.

I don't drink coffee that often, or have any caffeine past Ten p.m.

That was the first thing I tried and it worked for a few weeks before stopping again...

And I will try that hypoglycemic diet.... thanx for the advice.

I assume you have already given up anything with caffeine in it past about 2 pm, right? That includes coffee, tea, cola and chocolate (chocolate in anything). Here are a couple of things to try, if you haven't already:
*warm milk just before bed. Just warm a full cup or more of milk until it is pleasantly warm, not hot and drink it.
*take a warm bath right before bed.
*drink a special herbal tea that is supposed to make one sleepy (in the states, it is called Sleepy Time tea by Celestial Seasonings).

If these do not work, I would encourage you to get meds. There are many sleep meds that are new and are not habitforming or make you feel like you are drugged when you wake up. The simple fact of the matter is that you NEED good sleep to function properly. Your health and wellbeing will be badly affected without good sleep. So please get meds, if these ways don't work. Good luck.

Take the opposite approach. Instead of "I must sleep." say "I must not sleep!" Thats right. Deny it! You will not sleep. Absolutely not. Fight it. Etc.. See how far you get.