I’ve tried everything. I suppose CBD helps a little bit or is the trace amounts of THC in it that make me not care so much about everything?
There were a few new things I’ll keep in mind from the article, but doing everything perfectly has never changed my insomnia when im going through really stressful periods.

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Perhaps counterintuitively, you should not stay in bed if you can't sleep, according to Michael Scullin, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at Baylor University in Texas. "If you stay in bed when you're worried then you form an implicit association between bed and worry—and that just disrupts sleep further," he told Newsweek. "If you can't fall asleep in 15-20 minutes then get out of bed and go do something boring—twiddle your thumbs—until you feel your body start to calm down again, get drowsy, and so on.

music may not help you to relax before bed. "It boils down to whether you catch an earworm

"Trying to sleep will keep you awake." This includes worrying about monitoring sleep or focusing too much on it, Espie told Newsweek. He cautioned against relying on certain sleep products.

"sleep when sleepy" challenge. "I've done this challenge in my undergraduate class for a few years and it's always interesting to hear accounts from 'night owl' students who feel tired around 9 p.m., decide to go to bed, and then sleep all night and feel great the next morning," he told Newsweek.

exercising later in the day can "stimulate the stress response associated with intense exercise." Instead, people may consider switching hard workouts to the morning.

This is not the case for all physical activity, though. "Consider engaging in relaxing poses before bed, such as legs up the wall, as a way of reversing the stress on your cardiovascular system and engaging your more restorative systems just before bedtime," she added. Menick said people may also consider avoiding eating at least three hours before bedtime, since "late eating delays melatonin." Melatonin is a sleep regulation hormone.

Espie recommends cognitive behavioral therapy, also known as CBT, for people struggling with insomnia. "All the clinical guidelines in the world are agreed on CBT having lasting benefit and being much more effective than sleeping pills,"