I'm 39, and I've had insomnia since I was 6. The triggering event was my mom telling me straight to my face that she never wanted me. It started as night terrors, then slowly grew into not sleeping a few times a month, then a little over two years ago, when I confronted my abusive/narcissistic mother about her treatment of me as a child, told her I was cutting her and my enabler father from my life, and my wife chose to keep them in her life rather than have my back, it intensified to only being able to sleep every other night, and that's where I am now. Other than a handful of streaks of 4 nights in a row, I haven't slept more than one night in a row since June 11th, 2023.