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I found CBT for sleep helped my insomnia. A good book on this is called Goodnight Mind. I also read Matthew Walkers book while I was going through insomnia as well, and I can say this book is likely to make your insomnia worse. Half of it is just telling you all the ways in which you're killing yourself by not sleeping. Not a great thing to read when you can't sleep.

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I can second that. Got worse when I started reading it. I'm guessing it's aimed at people who can sleep but don't think it's important. I secretly despise those people. It's sort of like they're being perfectly healthy but choose to smoke while I'm forced to work in a dusty coal mine. I know it shouldn't bother me but it does.

I would often wake up in the middle of the night and not be able to fall back to sleep. I'd toss & turn for hours, absolutely miserable. It was made worse by the fact that with every passing minute I'd agonize over another lost minute of sleep.

It was only when someone suggested to me that simply lying still and focusing on my breathing was better than tossing and turning and worrying about not sleeping. If I couldn't sleep I could at least do that. It made a huge difference and helped me fall back to sleep.

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