I don't know how to sleep? Help?

I honestly don't know how to sleep!I'm constantly tossing and turning to find the perfect position. My mind is always active and I can't get out of my mind. My Dad once said that I just need to stop thinking but HOW do I do that?? I don't have the patience to just hope I will fall asleep! I always end up getting lost in my thoughts and forget that I was even trying to sleep. How have I survived this long with these issues you may ask? I usually take antipsychotic medication to knock me out so sleeping without them is pretty much learning how to sleep all over again. I always had troubles sleeping before using meds. I always wake up at least 30 times and sleep would last no more than 4 hours in total in a 7 hour time frame.

EDIT: So I managed to sleep for a few hours this morning after listening to an audio book for a few hours. I took some of my medication for my blood pressure and it helped me sleep for that few hours but it was long enough to recharge me. Although I did spend so many hours trying to fall asleep in the first place so I got 3 hours in a 10 hours timeframe.

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I have the same issue I find that listening to audio books while I sleep helps quiten my mind.

twiigss · M

Usually what I do, is I break up the day with phases. I have a morning, an afternoon, evening and a night. Basically I consider any time after like 7:00pm to be night time.

Now when morning rolls around I know it's time to get up (as much as I want to sleep in)
In the afternoon it's lunch time, anywhere from 1130am to 100pm.
In the evening it's time to relax and get dinner
In the night time, it's time for bed.

So when this night time phase comes around, and I'm in bed, I've already got it in my head that it's time to fall asleep. Now I fall asleep to white noise, like a fan running, or a jet engine sound etc.

So on Youtube, I turn on my favorite white noise video on my TV, and I'll lay in bed under the blankets, the sleep timer on the TV is set for one hour. And as I'm laying there watching the video, I focus more on the sounds, and within 2 to 3 minutes, I am completely gone.