Title is pretty much self explanatory of my issue, but I'll go a little more in depth. I've been having just horrible sleeping habits all this year. It really started when I began my first semester of college which was back in the fall. But because I didn't really have the best skills that are really needed for college (even at a community college apparently,) which I was struggling w at the time: time management, studying for tests; knowing how much to study, what to study and how to break up your time to get work from other classes done, and also having time for breaks in between which are EXTREMLEY necessary for my ADD/ADHD, and anxiety mind not to mention BPD but because I had these issues, esp the studying for test thing this would mess up my sleep sched really really bad. I would stay up just about the entire first half of the night creating flash cards on quizlet to study and this was because I didn't (and still don't) know any other way to study that works best for me, and because of the slide shows/powerpoints I had to study from where anywhere from 20-60 slides long, sometimes even about 100 slides, or at least very close to that, I would think that I would have to type a whole bunch of these flashcards out, and I wasn't doing this just for1 powerpoint slide, I would do this for 2 or 3 because that's just the amount of info the professor went over in class. Anyways, sometimes I wouldn't even finish completing typing the entire thing out, and the times when I did, it would be around 4am or much later and by then my brain would just be so exhausted from everything, just looking at the screen was way too much for me. And when this would happen sometimes I would sleep downstairs (if I was so tired, I would not walk up the stairs to my bed, even though the stairs are like 15 steps, but this just shows you how tired I was) or sometimes I would be in so much pain, anywhere from my neck/back/ hurting from bending slightly down to look at the computer screen, (and this was something I was going to mention later in this issue that I have a health condition, EDS that causes joint/muscle paint and I get this in particular places constantly and not to mention the fact that stress only makes it a h\*\*\* of a lot worse,) but that would start to hurt, my eyes would start to water and feel very fatigued and so I would just end up falling asleep not having studied much either which in result would make the whatever type of test/quiz I was having that day not look good at all. But I think because my sleep sched was messed up during my fall semester, is the reason why it's messed up now, at least I think that's a maj part of the reason. The other reason I think it's messed up is because of the pain that i mentioned earlier that gets so bad that sometimes, even pain killers don't esp (I've taken 800mg of ibuprofen which I was given ok by my ortho doctor to take after I had my back surgery, and he even said much after the surgery I could still take this, but even sometimes after I had taken it and it had been a while I would still be in the same amount of pain that I was in before I took it) and because of this I stayed up all night cause of the pain, and this is currently that this is happening. Or some nights I'll go to bed around 4 but still continue to stay up until around 7/8. And my final reason why I think I stay up so late is because my therapist and I believe my ADD/ADHD which I have been newly diagnosed w ADHD has gotten worse, I think this is why some nights such as tonight my brain just won't shut off at all no matter what things I try to do to make myself tired. I even took my meds at an earlier time than when I usually take them, and the meds I'm on are supposed to help quite my brain down and eventually fall asleep, but lately esp this week and last week, everything i try seems to not be working. Which really sucks because then the next day when everyone is around me I just feel for one tired, so tired I can't do anything, two in pain so much because I stayed down ell night on the couch which usually hurts everything, and three just very irritable which I then have to explain to my parents but my dad never seems to understand just how stressful this sleep issue is so it's hard to explain things to him. I'm at the point now where I'm not explaining much to anyone, even my mom whom I'm closet to, because nobody seems to understand or know what to say/do. Which is understandable, but it's obnoxious cause it's like I'm just on a continuous loop over and over again. Does anyone feel the same, or have similar issue? Does anyone have any suggestions to this? I apologize the post is so long but if anyone has anything to say please let me know cause I'm not really sure what to do here.