Anyone else develop severe sleep issues from GAD?

I always slept perfect my entire life until I was about 31 years old... and then gradually my sleep became worse over a span of about 5 months until I had to quit my awesome job and move back in with my parents. At this point, I still had no idea why I wasn't sleeping (both having trouble getting to sleep and staying asleep) so I first tried sleeping pills, but they only worked for about a couple of days until my system got used to them. It wasn't until I started taking an antidepressent that my sleep gradually returned to normal. It took me TWO YEARS to figure out that all I needed was an antidepressant to get my sleep to return to normal. I now completely understand how some people are just simply chemically off-balance and need medicine, and how no amount of talking will ever resolve some people's mental health issues... because in my case, I don't have anxiety about anything in particular so there's really nothing to talk about, since my anxiety is "very general". I also had a very good upbringing with no trauma, but have also been a quiet anxious guy my entire life (although, like I said above, it wasn't until I hit about age 31 that my sleep started to be affected negatively, which caused me to quit my job and move back in with the parents). So in my case, it's just my chemistry is off and wasn't caused by any kind of trauma. I also don't ever have panic attacks either... it's just a very "general" anxiety (which I think causes me to live a very simple life, because with a simpler life I have a lot less anxiety).

So is there anyone else here that solved their sleep issues (caused by anxiety) by taking antidepressants?

I’m 29, and I started having sleep issues about three months back for the first time in my life. I was about to get on medication then I got turned on to CBD oil from hemp. I take about 6mg - 10mg a day as well as some supplement called Gabatrol which is amino acids and some other things. Taking these daily coupled with getting my diet and exercise in check has really helped my sleep. I’ve always been anxious as well, funny how it starts to wick into our sleep as we age. I’m going to start light therapy as well to get my rhythm more in check since I sit in an office all day long.

Glad to hear you’re having success with the medication, usually people get on a road to recovery and use the meds for a while to aid their journey. The ones I was on previously I couldn’t handle, they hurt my stomach. I myself have to go back to therapy, I have a lot I want to work on in my psyche.

I have periodic adrenal exhaustion that caused me to have high cortisol levels into the middle of the night. It seems to be from too much coffee taken in a short amount of time or a build up of taking at least the equivalent of 3 cups each morning. I literally have to just go cold turkey from coffee for close to a week.

Now the second thing that screws with my sleep turns out to be zinc deficiency.
I was reading all about vitamins, and I started taking several and an unintended positive was I started to sleep much longer at night without waking up. *Copper accumulation in the body may affect the brain. I used to wake up about every 1.5 hrs. I take about 2 or 2.5 standard zink pills to this day because I want to avoid that freqent waking problem.