I want to chime in here and say the number one thing that helped me sleep better: less stress. Everything else didn't do shit. I tried pills, breathing exercise

I want to chime in here and say the number one thing that helped me sleep better: less stress. Everything else didn't do shit. I tried pills, breathing exercises, routines, food, etc... Didn't work. I went from barely being able to pay bills month to month with no luxuries (people look at what I lived in at the time as a prison jail cell), working on a degree I hated at a university I hated, living in a city I hated, no physical affection or love, and overall very lonely ... to perpetually having a job I hate, being in a decent relationship, not making anywhere near enough to afford the area but can afford the bills I do have, and still pretty lonely. Region isn't great either but mostly cause it's so expensive. Life still sucks but it's not the pure hell I was in before. I don't fall asleep super fast. But I don't wake up as much in the middle of the night. (And I can fall back asleep) I don't deal with it taking 3-4 hours on the regular to fall asleep - about 30 minutes to an hour now. (I watch random educational YouTube videos) I don't deal with my mind racing and trying to figure out how to solve every problem... Even if I wish sometimes I did have that fire under my ass to keep me moving. I don't have more stressful periods where I sleep maybe 30 minutes to an hour a day and a week feels like a month or more. I'm less stressed. It was the number 1 thing that helped me and I noticed it immediately. And I always knew that was the issue. Because of that, there was no cure except to get rid of the stressors. So I finally graduated, I got a job after many months of toil that ended up paying me, I finally met someone who would be in a relationship with me (took 26 years), and I got out of Seattle. It took forever. Going to be 30 soon enough. I feel like when I do have my birthday, the stress will come back thanks to feeling wildly underaccomplished. Woo... But I'll manage as long as I don't live in Seattle again.