Insomnia is incredibly common. What do you do when sleep just won't come?

Over the years, I have gathered a lot of simple supportive tools to help restore sleep. These are the ten that I have found to be most helpful, both personally and through other people’s experience.

There are lots of prescription medications that people say help with sleep - but is this a good thing?

I’m the kind of person who requires a good 8 hours per night in order to function well the next day. But last autumn, during a period of anxiety and depression, I slept extremely lightly.

Here are some ideas for help with problems we have not covered in detail elsewhere on the site. This page contains extracts from another website - the Student Counselling Centre at Royal Holloway College in London [©]. They have written some