I find it helps to read. If you actively try to keep yourself awake to, say, finish a chapter, I usually end up having real trouble staying awake. Music worked for me when I was a kid; I used never to be able to sleep then I bought a radio and listening to the music lulled me off to sleep. Doesn't happen any more, so maybe that's just when you're young. Karen often has the same problem - and she's taking zoplidem tartrate, which we're told is the strongest sleep medication available here - and I tell her it's something that's on her mind which is keeping her from sleeping, coupled with this self-fulfilling prophecy of thinking she won't sleep, and so she doesn't. Can't do it for you, ISB, of course, but I have her toy cat Millie talk to her and promise she'll sleep, and that usually works. Not a lot of help, I know. There's also the old remedy of going for a small hours walk to tire yourself out. Hope you manage to get some sleep; I remember what it was like not to be able to just close your eyes and drift off.
We also have stress relief tablets here called Kalms, and a thing called Rescue Remedy, which seem to help her. I don't know if you have them where you are?
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