The quote Curved Air: 'Don't go to a doctor he'll just give you pills.'
My few hints are:
- wind down properly before going to bed. Don't go from solving astrophysics to bed. When I'm having problems I shut down the house, and myself in stages. Computer off, most lights off, music off, walk outside and contemplate the stars/clouds ... Sometime I just sit on the lounge in the dark for a while.
- decide to enjoy the time lying there. Think about something pleasant, todays APOD, birds in the garden, plan your next holiday .. whatever rocks your boat.
- if you start getting angry, get up and distract yourself. Early morning TV has an abundance of mindless distractions.
- yoghurt is the magic sleeping pill. There is something in yoghurt that helps sleep and I'm apparently pretty susceptable to it. Eating at that time of night isn't good for the waist but life is full of compromises.
- a bit of light exercise a couple of hours before bed is supposed to be good too, but I've never been
that desperate.
Brent, like most middle-aged people I also have a bit of tinnitus. Ten years ago, around the time of my nervous breakdown it used to scream. I used to lie on the bed breathing slowly and deeply and tell myself with every exhale that it was a bit quieter and that helped a bit. I'm in a much better state of mind now and it has retreated into the background. I know there is a physical cause but don't underestimate the psychological.
True. 
