Medications like Ritalin and Trazodone were used to manage severe insomnia and anxiety, with Trazodone eventually inducing sleep, and Adavan was added for anxiety, which the speaker took for 8.5 years.

“the doctor put me on reron and that got me about three weeks worth of sleep and then I went on another six weeks fail with only one or two hours of sleep and fell even deeper into the darkness uh trazadone finally put me to sleep I ended up taking trazadone and I also got Adavan got added to the mix because I was experiencing insane anxiety and uh I was on Adavan for eight and a half years”