The life-in-general help me thread

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Does anyone know of a really good over the counter sleep medicine that doesn't have depression side effects?

It's been going on for months, so I feel I need to do something about it. For some reason when night hits I'm not tired at all and it takes until about 1AM for any fatigue to hit in and then I want to sleep past 9AM, which works poorly when I have 5:30AM shifts. Then what sucks is that I'm tired all day but then magically awake and peppy once the time to go to sleep rolls around.

The depression thing is a major issue. I was on a prescribed sleeping medicine once which happened to have this as a side effect that I wasn't made aware of. That was the only time in my life that I tried to commit suicide and I like to avoid that.