Try doing sports each evening or as often as possible with some socialising for example social dancing like Salsa if you can . For me this made matters worse for a few days , but then I ' ve started sleeping like a child . The only problem waking up most likely to return if you stop while your stress stimulus didn ' t go away . Second option are right people who don ' t have any problems in their life and are very happy and feels like they are very alive . Don ' t try explaining to them how your life is screwed , but hanging out with them might help you release a lot of steam . The only problem such people are very rare . IMHO , if you ' re getting blamed for not doing anything , then don ' t do anything . Also , I ' ve had similar situation in stress terms , in the end left home to another country many years ago . Lastly , if you don ' t deal with stress now , then you ' ll have harder time dealing with it in the future , because it accumulates over the years and will start appearing in forms of illnesses . You should be more important to yourself right now than anybody else .