It's very encouraging to hear someone else has trouble sleeping for the same reasons. Just to add on to what you've said, I find myself holding off sleeping be

It's very encouraging to hear someone else has trouble sleeping for the same reasons. Just to add on to what you've said, I find myself holding off sleeping because it means that another work-day is waiting when I wake up. Meaning, when the time to go to sleep (a good time) rolls around, all I can think of is all the things I haven't done that I should do. And that is stressful, so I end up holding off sleep even more, doing shit to distract myself. Such as Reddit, Quora, or YCombinator. The things that I feel like I should have done are either personal growth or skill-improvement, or something (like you said) that I wanted to do to meet my own needs. And it is really frustrating because it makes work a ton harder and it's discouraging, because I know I'm not performing at, or near, 100% like I could be. I don't know what a good solution is, but it was helpful to read someone else who struggles with the same problem. Thanks for your story. Cheers.