SueDonim
That’s miserable.
Have you done all the usual things they suggest, no screens for an hour before bedtime, a warm bath, calm atmosphere etc? Are you lying awake worrying about things? If you are, I was told of a technique that was remarkably effective for me. When you get into bed, write down anything that’s on your mind on a bit of paper or notebook then lay it aside and tell yourself you’ll think about those things in the morning.
I was very sceptical indeed but to my astonishment, it worked! Not only did I manage to sleep, it also eliminated the awful dreams I’d been having. It’s almost as though I was giving myself permission to relax and sleep. I only needed to do it a few times, it kind of reset my body, or something.
A similar technnique works for me, though I do not have a sleep issue.
I have found that if I have about five or six things or more that I need to get done on a day that I can get a bit overwhelmed by it, even though they are not each in their own way any problem.
For example, do some washing, order some shoes online, etc. The mix is on my mind all together.
I have found that if I sit down and write a list of tasks to do, . and it is, perhaps, seven or eight items when the list is completed, then I just look at the list and decide which one it is best to do first, but not try to put the rest in a timetabled order, then go and do that task, then go back to the list and choose the next one, and so on.
If they are all about equal priority I tend to do the quicker ones earlier so as to reduce the number of tasks still to do, and to alternate physical ones with sedantary ones. For example, washing some shirts, ordering shoes online.