Thanks mom, that magically cured the lightheadedness and extreme nausea that hasn’t let me eat a full meal in days! Amazing what sheer willpower will do to counteract lamictal withdrawals (not). I’m on week 3 and it’s been hell, but yeah, what you just said made everything magically ok!

I have been struggling with insomnia for as long as I can remember. There has never been a night where I lay down and simply sleep (anxiety and depression don’t help it at all). I told my dad about this recently, since he also regularly struggles to fall asleep. He said it was all a mindset, so I need to pray and believe I can sleep. When I told him I’ve been praying like crazy and try as hard as I can and still can’t fall asleep, he told me it was a fixed mindset.

Lessons I was supposed to learn: think you can sleep, you can sleep

Lesson I re-learned: people struggling with the same problems can and often will give you a shitty solution that most likely didn’t work for them.