We Need To Talk...

 It's 6am and I am wide awake. Am I exhausted? Absolutely. Have I tried to sleep? Yep. I've tried ASMR videos, relaxing music, guided meditation. Nothing works. People will so often say you must be doing something to stop you from sleeping, they'll tell you better ways to help you sleep. That's all well and good, except that, it doesn't work. Not for me. No matter how tired I am, how much I want to sleep, I can guarantee that the minute I think i'm ready to do just that and close my eyes, my brain wakes up again. It might seem for a few minutes that it's finally letting me rest, but it isn't. Half the time, people don't believe it. That's where the assumption comes from that you're just doing something to keep yourself awake. It's a nightmare really because suffering from depression, I feel exhausted a lot, but the anxiety that goes with it, keeps me awake a lot too. And of course, the people who think they have the solutions are the peop