I had insomnia as a kid and onwards before drink or drugs came into my life. It's a pain in the arse. My parents would try everything with me, even making lullaby tapes, story tapes, and tapes of sleepy music, mostly John Lennon stuff, it being the 80's. They used to play me a tape of noise that baby's heard in the womb, that really worked! I can't sleep unless there's some sort of dull noise like a rotating fan, or the tv on quiet. Probably my parents fault that.
Add natural insomnia into the mix of messing up your brain chemistry with drinking, taking drugs and it's a fucking nightmare!
Plus, I just found out i've been taking my medication at totally the wrong time, I'd been taking it before bed! (Stupid doctor didn't advise me, nor does the box) and the medication I take is very stimulating. No wonder i've been having no sleep recently!
Hmm angry thread, virgin have restored services, but my phone line is dead! Nothing ever goes right with those idiots.