Your rant is welcome. I also have sleep issues. It can become highly debilitating. Before the medications that didn’t work, I went through every painstaking recommendation I was given - months-long sleep logs, more exercise, pristine bedroom hygiene, forcing “regular” hours, no artificial lights (including screens) 2 hours before bed, and so on - and none of those worked either.
At one point I had doctors telling me to try exercising less. And lo and behold, that one helped a tiny bit - because I had only been adding physical exhaustion on top of my pre-existing issues.
Your rant is welcome. I also have sleep issues. It can become highly debilitating. Before the medications that didn’t work, I went through every painstaking recommendation I was given - months-long sleep logs, more exercise, pristine bedroom hygiene, forcing “regular” hours, no artificial lights (including screens) 2 hours before bed, and so on - and none of those worked either.
At one point I had doctors telling me to try exercising less. And lo and behold, that one helped a tiny bit - because I had only been adding physical exhaustion on top of my pre-existing issues.