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I've had the same problem for years. I took the following steps:

1) I eliminated caffeine. This was very hard, as I was having trouble falling asleep at night and then even more trouble getting up in the morning, but taking caffeine helped to feed a vicious cycle.

2) I cut back on exercise. I discovered that my body was wanting 10-14 hours of sleep after my ultra-intense workouts (that I would do to make me tired enough to fall asleep). I was giving it 4-6 hours a night. This put me in a high-stress mode. I think I was physically addicted to exercise, and it took a lot to go from 1000-2000 calories of cardio a day to 100-500.

Since then I've lost weight, I have more energy, I can wakeup in the morning without caffeine, I get drowsy by 9:00 and am in bed by 10:00. (Before I would go to bed at 12:00 and not fall asleep until 1:00-2:00.) I think more clearly. I can handle more work.

I did the Mary Jane route in college, and it worked very well. I think it's a bandaid for a larger problem though.