Insomnia

Insomnia is defined as a chronic inability to fall asleep or remain asleep for an adequate length of time. I don't have a problem remaining asleep for long periods, for people who've been with me during sleepovers, they know that I can sleep for an absurdly long time. The problem with me is falling asleep. During my waking moments, my brain goes into overdrive so much that I have trouble shutting down. I have so many ideas whizzing around my brain that I have an inability to turn them off when I need to. Nowadays, I sleep every other day, which is scary. I went to my GP a couple of days ago to ask for help...I didn't get any. Basically, she told me to find other ways of falling asleep, short of bonking my head so that I conk out, I don't know what else to do. I asked the pharmacy for help, and they gave me these over the counter pills that do an amazing job. Hopefully, I'll be able to get into a normal sleeping pattern after I finish the meds so that I won't need to be a zombie every other day.

The plus side to this is I have so much more waking hours to paint. I find that this helps me relax, my brain only thinks about mixing my paints to get the desired colors that I want. Amazingly, I am able to produce paintings without much effort. At the very least, there's one good thing about not being able to fall asleep.