/r/insomnia/

r/insomnia

189k members
r/insomnia is a subreddit with 189k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and pain & anger, and the community frequently discusses insomnia, sleep, medication, anxiety, and help, and they frequently recommend/review sleeping pills, sleep aid, and sleep aids.
Posts and discussion about insomnia and sleep disorders.

Popular Themes in r/insomnia

#1
Advice Requests
: "Zyrtec cured my sleep-maintenance insomnia"
14 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "Never ever take benzos"
11 posts
#3
Solution Requests
: "After 2 years of bad sleep, something weirdly simple actually helped"
3 posts

Popular Topics in r/insomnia

#1

Insomnia

: "Does anyone else think one of the crueler things about severe Insomnia is that it doesn’t have a name that people recognize as an actual severe medical condition?"
255 posts
#2

Sleep

: "Sleep hygiene is a hoax"
195 posts
#3

Medication

: "Which Medication works best"
42 posts
#4

Anxiety

: "Can you share stories of successfully getting over nighttime hyperarousal/ Anxiety"
35 posts
#5

Help

: "Please Help me"
32 posts
#6

Sleeping

22 posts
#7

Frustrating

20 posts
#8

Advice

: "Advice please? :("
14 posts
#9

Doctor

11 posts
#10

Struggling

: "Thinking about quitting my 6 figure job cause I’m tired of not being able to sleep"
11 posts

Products Discussed in r/insomnia

Sleeping Pills

57 reviews
#1
Ambien
3.7 from 9 reviews
#2
Trazodone
4.2 from 6 reviews
#3
Lunesta
2.7 from 6 reviews

Sleep Aid

22 reviews
#1
Ambien
4.3 from 3 reviews
#2
Seroquel
3.0 from 2 reviews
#3
Lunesta
4.0 from 2 reviews

Sleep Aids

20 reviews
#1
Trazodone
4.2 from 5 reviews
#2
Magnesium
4.0 from 2 reviews
#3
Diphenhydramine
2.0 from 1 review

Member Growth in r/insomnia

Yearly
+29k members(18.2%)

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Last updated: June 16, 2026