Does anyone go back to normal?

With insomnia it seems that people who struggle with it once have reoccurring problems, everyone posting in here it’s never their first rodeo they’ve had multiple bouts of it and know what they are in for.

It’s normally because people are poor sleepers their whole life and it’s habit, maybe genetics a lot of the time, “night owls”.

For me I don’t associate with any of these things, it’s weird I ever even experienced insomnia, my sleep hygiene has been on point for years, growing up I never had issues, it’s not in my family to have issues.

Then suddenly one day I just didn’t sleep for a week, forced on with anxiety, adrenaline and panic attacks.

I thought I’d never sleep again but then I started to read the book say good night to insomnia and it helped me, I started sleeping again albeit reduced but I stopped reading it, doing the tasks and was complacent with my progress, I was sleeping again, eventually my sleeping pattern will go back to normal I don’t need to keep it up.

Then another stressful period popped up not long after then boom another 4 days 0 sleep, slept half a night for one night then another night with only fleeting moments of sleep.

Most people who have “insomnia” suffer with taking too long to go to sleep or waking up in the night. Maintenace and the other one I don’t remember. The type I have suffered with is hard cold insomnia. NO sleep and for multiple nights. Like wtf never had anything like this ever then twice in a 2 month period this.

Now I think if I had kept up with the book and the methods inside it perhaps I would have dealt better, perhaps I wouldn’t be having troubles now but it is what it is but I can’t say for sure.

I’ll do a weird analogy here because I can’t think of a better one, I guess insomnia is a bit like an elastic band, sometimes you’ll pull it really hard and it won’t break, some won’t break at all but if you break one once it’s broken, it’s broken, you can tape it back together but it’ll always be prone to breaking again if you try pull it.

Is it true do you think? Once someone has experienced insomnia they’re just bound to have it again?

I’m also intrigued, because tbh I hadn’t even had the time to recover from my first episode before my second, do you ever feel normal again?

Or do you always feel tired and like that sleep debt feeling? Because when you suffer severe 0 sleep episodes of insomnia it’s pretty tough to pay that sleep debt back, it’s gone. But do you ever go back to feeling normal again? The way you did before?

On a different note I know for sure my insomnia is caused by anxiety, adrenaline, hyperarousal. I’m like 90% sure a beta blocker would fix these issues and I’d probably never suffer it again but I’m not one for drugs, acute ones like antihistamines, painkillers are the closest I’ll use to a sleep aid.