Your story sounds like mine: my earliest memories involve not being able to sleep. I found out later it runs on my father’s side of the family. Bad news is, if

Your story sounds like mine: my earliest memories involve not being able to sleep. I found out later it runs on my father’s side of the family. Bad news is, if you’re a primary chronic insomniac like me, you will never “recover”. The best you can do is cope. That said, the best advice I ever received came from a neurologist who wrote textbooks on the subject: limit your time in bed to 7.5 hours, regardless of how much you sleep. That, in combination with meds (which I have to rotate because of desensitization), made me sleepy at night for the very first time in my life. Pleasant dreams!