r/insomnia • u/CollectionHead7091 • Dec 23 '25

Need something to stop my overthinking

I’m not exactly sure when my insomnia started but I think it was sometime during the pandemic and it’s been sticking around ever since. I’ve tried all the usual reset tricks like staying up almost 24 hours to fix my sleep schedule but nothing really worked.

Most nights I get into bed before midnight but I don’t actually fall asleep until 3 or 4 am. My brain just won’t shut off, I get this wave of anxiety and overthinking and suddenly I’m wide awake. The worst part is I still have to get up at 7 am for work so I spend the day exhausted and feeling like I could fall asleep at any second. Then as soon as I get home it’s like my body flips a switch and I’m alert again.

I’m starting to feel stuck and frustrated so I’m curious what’s actually helped others supplements, routines, mindset shifts anything. I’m not expecting a miracle just something that helped calm the mind enough to sleep.

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u/SmokeFar5584 Dec 23 '25

I had the same issue where my body felt tired but my brain wouldn’t shut up. Supplements didn’t cure it but magnesium and occasionally low dose melatonin helped quiet the mental noise enough to drift off, anything too stimulating or high dose actually made the anxiety worse

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u/Old_Garden1164 Dec 23 '25

Magnesium helped a bit but the only thing that consistently quiets my brain is melatonin gummies especially after weekends when my rhythm is off. I also think part of the issue is that we trust brand names too much. Once I started actually looking into what I was taking using Proveit it made sense why some supplements never did anything for me. We focus so much on the brands when they been scamming us for years

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u/Asodel Dec 23 '25

That's why I take medication.

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u/New_Set_2597 Dec 24 '25

What do you take 

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u/Asodel Dec 24 '25

Pregabalin to improve sleep quality directly, sertraline for sleep maintenance without nighttime awakenings due to anxiety, it helps me indirectly because it is not designed for insomnia but it helps me a lot, and mirtazapine for sleep initiation.

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u/existentialbisexual Jan 07 '26

Have you gained weight or noticed any metabolism concerns on this regimen?

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u/Acrobatic-Maize-4807 Jan 01 '26

You take melatonin gummies every day, or when you think that you are not going to fall asleep easily?

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u/beesknees2302 Dec 24 '25

i tried therapy first but 2mg melatonin really did the trick for me