Question: I have had a problem with my sleeping for a while now but never known what it was. My mother is very reluctant on taking me to the doctors as she said nothing is wrong with me. The problem is that it is getting to the stage where I am getting quite frustrated over the situation. generally each night I will not be able to go to bed until about 2am/4am, earliest is about half 1am. For example, at the moment it is nearly half 4 and I am wide awake. I find it extremely hard to get up in the morning, and school is a nightmare as I generally fall asleep in class and this causes school problems, along with the fact that being tired is causing me to get grumpy and depressed.
I have tried the ‘sleep debt’ method before but all that happened was that I woke up at 3am and couldn’t sleep the rest of the night.Does anyone have suggestions, remembering that I can’t go to the doctors or get any sleeping pills. However, my dad has some melatonin (would that help?) and is there any over the counter drugs/remedies that I could try to fall into natural sleep and not wake up in the middle of the night?Thank you 🙂