i'm 17 and have diagnosed severe insomnia. it's gotten so bad that i literally need to take sleeping pills every night. i've gotten maybe 9 hours of sleep, combined, since tuesday. i'm so f*cking tired i can't even see straight. with the pills, i'm able to get like 6 or 7 hours of sleep a night. unfortunatly, my doctor felt uncomfortable re-prescribing them to me because he said (since i'm so young) i have a huge, huge chance of becoming dependent on them for the rest of my life. i told him i didn't care, I NEED TO SLEEP. he flat out said no and told me to come back in 6 months to "check on my progress" AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!! so now, it's 2:20 AM and i'm pissing around on yahoo answers. i'm going back on monday and i'm not taking no for an answer. if this happened to you--what would you say?