Something very, very serious is going on, and you need answers. But there is no logical way to get answers until tomorrow. How the hell do you sleep?

I have to bring my daughter to the pediatrician tomorrow to find out if she has a disease that the doctor suspects. I’m very worried, wrought with guilt for not taking her in earlier, and have done all of the research and productive things I can do about it tonight. But it’s 1:30am, I have to be up at 8, and I’m not anywhere near serene enough to go to sleep.

What the hell do you do in situations like this?

Even if it’s not something as dramatic as this, I still need advice. I am a very anxious person and I also have insomnia, so even if I get a text message that bothers me or I remember something mildly important that I forgot to tell my now-sleeping partner, it keeps me up for hours.

And I already take sleeping pills – the maximum dosage that is recommended – so that suggestion doesn’t really help.