If you are only 14 and think you have had insomnia for a long time how do you know and what can you do to fix it?

Answer 1

I also have had "central chronic insomnia" since I was young. Not getting sleep is a very serious health threat People deprived of all sleep will die after a few weeks. Get your parents to get you to the family doctor, who can send you in turn to a sleep specialist doctor. There is a lot you can do that doesn't involve prescription drugs. He will probably start out improving your "sleep hygiene" (meaning life habits), and some are really easy, like just checking to see if you're drinking colas too often or too late. But it's serious enough that a medical doctor is really essential. Until the appointment comes, the one most important thing you can do that's good for sleep (and almost everything else) is exercising an hour a day enough to get sweaty. The public library can check you out books that tell lots of other helpful things, like insuring you're not over-warm while sleeping because of too many clothes or blankets, and turning lights out the same time daily.