> At what point would I try going to a psychiatrist to get some pills that make me sleep for 9 hours at a time to get "out of this loop"? As someone in a very

> At what point would I try going to a psychiatrist to get some pills that make me sleep for 9 hours at a time to get "out of this loop"? As someone in a very similar scenario who just started taking sleeping pills, they don’t work like that … IME they helped me not wake up in the middle of the night, but I still wake up feeling groggy. You should talk to your doctor and try them if you want but don’t expect them to be a magic loop-bucking silver bullet.