Hypoxia and Medicine

Can you help a little 12 year old girl with (in my book, severe) insomnia?

Ha-ha sorry for calling myself little and acting all innocent. But I have a HUG sleeping disorder. . .it started in October 2008. Let me describe who I am since it's a medical condition and it might help. . .I'm a 12 year old girl and I live in the USA. I have an average American diet and I'm probably 85-90 pounds the last time I weighed myself. Heart problems and allergies run in my genes. Now, I think I have insomnia. My problem is that I couldn't sleep until after 12 midnight. Then, around Christmas break or Midwinter break then 12 became a 1. Just a couple days ago, 1 AM turned into 2 AM. Last night, I couldn't sleep until 4:30 AM! Oh yeah, by the way, I always wake up automatically at almost exactly 6 AM but I am too tired so I fall back into sleep, but very deep sleep. From 3 AM to 6 AM I have really strange dreams. Really strange, random and funny dreams. This is pretty much my routine every night, and I don't think it's healthy. At ALL. Today I fell asleep at 4:30 AM and woke up at 9 AM for church. So that's only like 4 hours of sleep. My disorder always made me late for school last year. So some of you might want to pretend to be cool and ask "yo where question yo micheal j is hot" Well, here's my questionS: Can I cure this on my own? My mom says that I only can't sleep because I don't want to. I DO, SO BAD! So the doctor is out. Is this actually insomnia? Can you give me more information about insomnia and other sleeping disorders? I looked it up in Wikipedia, but they like being show-offs there with fancy words (sometimes with broken links. OH SO *HELPFUL* WIKIPEDIA! It would REALLY help if they actually explained it so 7th graders with Post-High School people can, idk, UNDERSTAND them!) PLEASE HELP. THX<3 bye your dog's ex-wife(inside joke)

Public Comments

1. What you have isn't really insomnia. What you need to do is examine what you're doing right before bed, and change your habits this way. For example, are you on the computer or watching TV before you go to bed? And when you can't fall asleep, are you lying in bed, or doing something else. Tonight, try reading a book or magazine starting at least 30 min before you go to bed, and not eating anything at least an hour before. Drinking milk is ok. Then, turn your light off and try to relax at the time when you want to fall asleep - say, around 11. Don't keep on worrying about how you're not falling asleep, and don't get up and do something when you can't fall asleep for a while. Make sure you're comfortable and not stressed out about something, and just let yourself relax until you fall asleep. Hope this helps!
2. Not insomnia