Insomnia Stinks

This week I have been hit with a bout of Insomnia. To put it simply, it stinks. I know that I've had insomnia wince I was around the age of 14, roughly around the time I started High School. But I think that I might have had it before then, and its probably self induced. Some of my earliest memories of my childhood are me staying up till the wee hours of the morning reading/finishing my latest fantasy novel. That continued on for a while then when I reached high school I was truly introduced into the world of video games. This didn't replace my reading, it just pushed it back to the later hours of the night. So through out high school i got used to the schedule of going to bed around 1:00 a.m. and being woken up by my dad at 5 a.m. during the school week. The weekends usually consisted in going over to my friend Nate's house on Friday night and playing video games till 5 a.m. sleeping till 7 a.m. then going home at 8 a.m. to do chores. Wash, rinse, repeat for Saturday night.
As a teenager this worked for me perfectly. I barely even realized that I had a harder time falling asleep than all my friends because I was so caught up in the material world that I lived in. It was rough on my mission. Going to bed at 10:30 p.m. was torture. Sometimes I would lay in bed staring at the ceiling till 3 a.m. Eventually my sleep pattern stabilized and I was able to go to sleep by mid-night. When I got home from my mission I got back into a similar routine as I had had prior to the mission. I'd usually go to bed around 2 a.m. and get up at 6 a.m. to go to work. Now I 'm in college, and this last week was the worst I've had since I left for my mission 2 1/2 years ago. On some nights I didn't fall asleep till 6 a.m. On average I went to bed around 3 a.m. I disguised it to my room-mates and friends by watching movies and playing games with them until they went to bed, but after that I would take a shower and attempt to sleep. Eventually after and hour or so of attempting, I would succeed.
This problem makes school work very difficult. I'm lucky that all my classes do not require my attendance to learn the material. In fact I actually learn the material better when I study it alone. This gives me the opportunity to catch up on sleep when needed. But it is something that I cant take advantage of to often. Plus if I'm sleeping during the afternoon, I'm not doing school work.