I am 15 (sixteen in two months) and i am having trouble sleeping. at the beginning of the summer i started off going to sleep around 3-5am walking around 1-3pm (this was all good), and now some how im going to sleep around 8-11am walking up around 7-8pm!!!!

i am even gone the whole day without sleep, before i went to sleep this mourning i was up for the third day with only 3 hours of sleep.

thats the problem how am i supposed to enjoy my summer if i wake up an hour and a half before my curfew? waking up 1-3pm was fine cause who really goes out in the mourning unless you have plans to o some where like at the opening, like a amusement park or something.

anyways do you think i have a sleeping disorder? what can i do to get back to waking around 1-3?
things i tried:
staying up all day
(always fall asleep for about an hour or two which gives me enough energy to stay up another night)

laying in the dark
(laid there from 3am till around 9pm which when i usually go to sleep)

I can’t sleep…. ever! I use all kinds of herbal supplements like Velarian root, Meletonin, Jujubee root, Passion flower, seratonin… ect. I’ve tried everything!!!! Please help

I am an 18 year old male. I just recently developed a problem with getting erections I was fine for a while when I got normal amounts of sleep, but as of late my insomnia seems to have kicked in and I can barely sleep. I find it somewhat difficult to get fully aroused and to hold an erection. It just recently happened I am thinking the lack of sleep is the cause. thank you in advance to any help and feedback it is all greatly appreciated =)!

Most recently i have been having a really hard time going to sleep. Couple days ago i went to bed later than usual (i usually stay till 1 but this time i stayed till 2. To my dismay I wasnt not able to sleep that night, until the next morning. The next day june 29 i decided to get to bed early, so went to bed at 11:00 took my medication, still was not able to go to bed until the next morning. Now yesturday i went to bed the same time 11:00, took a valium to see wehther or not it work to help me go to sleep, i was not in panic in fact i was wide awake all night and still no luck. I dont know how much sleep ive been getting between now and june 27 but i cant seem to get to bed. I called my doctor and hes now on vacation apparently, and im starting to have spasms at night. I dont know what to do, i thought i have to somehow reset my brains schedule so i can get back to sleep but i have no luck and its terrible to know that im going to be up all night. Should i just stay up till the next day and rest then?

During school, I’m basically tired 24/7, but I blame that on early mornings, late nights, tons of homework plus a very dedicated extracurricular activity (otherwise known as "drama"). I didn’t know this existed, and I was just reading about it. But then I stopped and thought; I feel like I’m constantly tired, even if I’ve overslept. I can sleep for twelve hours then take another two hour nap during the day, just because I feel like it. Would there be ANY reason for me to be concerned or get this "checked out"?

Because another part of me thinks, well, I’m a teenager, teens sleep a lot. My family constantly complains about how much I sleep (and the fact that I sleep all during the day but I’m up all night). A lot of times I sleep either the amount of hours I’m awake, or more than.

So again I ask, what is the line that makes a person have hypersomnia as opposed to being tired a lot?

Ok so I’m 24 years old and all my life I have had a hard time going to sleep, I’d stay up really late and then only be able to sleep like 4 to 5 hours at a time, not sure why this is even as a baby I never slept or so I’ve been told by my parents, but even now that I’m on the verge of my mid 20’s I know it’s not healthy and I used to think that oh it’s no big deal I don’t require a lot of sleep, however, I’ve noticed that it’s now starting to effect my work environment, I’ve taken over the counter and prescription drugs for sleeping and have been diagnosed with sleeping disorder but I feel as though it’s more serious. The drug Ambien is very power-full and I can take it and I feel tired however I am still unable to sleep, I don’t know what to do or help think it’s more then a sleeping disorder.

From 3.5 years ago up until very recently, I had a mental health problem which caused me to restrict the amount of time that I slept each night, much the same way that somebody with anorexia nervosa restricts food; at one time I reached a point where I would allow myself no more than one hour of sleep per night. The emotions surrounding this obsession were very similar to those experienced by people with AN: sleep was viewed as a shameful and weak.

In the DSM-IV and ICD-10, the last item on the list of nonorganic sleep disorders is nonorganic sleep disorder, unspecified, which says that it includes "emotional sleep disorder, not otherwise specified". However, I can find no further information on this phrase. Google searches only bring up PDF files of ICD/DSM. I discussed it with several librarians, and we couldn’t find any books referencing it. I asked my psychiatrist at one point; he didn’t respond. Does anyone know what ESD-NOS is and whether it’s applicable to my recent problem?

I was diognosed with Bipolar disorder about 9 years ago and my doctors started trying different combinations of medicines and doses. Nothing every really worked for me; either it made things to extreme (over anxious, shaky, etc) or did nothing at all. After about 2 years of the up and down and nothing working, I got tired of never knowing how I would feel when I woke up every morning, or just feeling the same, that I quit taking meds all together. Shortly after that, I stopped going to my psychiatrist. Much like others who have Bipolar disorder, I thought that I could just deal on my own, but after all that time of trying and trying everything, I’m at the end of my rope and back to square one. I need to be on medication. I dont know whic med I need, and I dont have insurance. I dont know what to do, but I cant deal with the constant mood swings anymore. My work, my relationships, and even my physical health are paying for it. I havent been sleeping, and Im so sore everyday. Whats left?

I go to bed and my mind wont rest, its happening so often now its killing me.Its takes me a minumum if 2 hours after i go to bed before i will fall asleep.This is a type of insomnia or sleep disorder am i right? I dont want medications to make me sleep but its so frustrating i want to put my head through a wall to knock me out so i can sleep.What do i do?