Ask HN: How can my sleep become more reliable?

I have a severe problem for my professional career, and it is my unreliability of sleep. I want to fix it, and want your suggestion and help.<p>It has not been that way for more than ten years since my highschool day. Being interested in programming and being in dorm where little regulation existed for my high school and college days gave me pretty wimsy and on-demand sleep schedule, which brought me occasional sleep deprivation. Many of you in programming would understand the disaster with habitual sleep deprivation.<p>To force some sort of self-regulation, I made the network and light to be turned off at 10 o'clock automatically, but my family started to complain about their inability to control those utility. So I had to create another control mechanism for turning back them on when they needed, but I ended up abusing this mechanism, which made the whole self-regulation meaningless. Yes, I am pretty weak-willed, but that is why I am asking your help on how I can become a person with better will-power with sleep. I tried many will-power related suggestion or regimen, but I seem to always end up coming back to the state of unreliability whenever an unexpected event with pressure happens.<p>I have pretty high ideal for my performance, and I am not satisified that I am not such person who can achieve it reliably. At nights, the thing that I am not doing what I am supposed to do makes me depressed, prevent me from me getting things done, makes me unable to sleep, and eventually ignites the vicious cycle of stress, regret, depression, and sleep-deprivation.<p>Recently, I discovered that I am at the stage of pre-hypertension. The most likely cause of this would be the stress, and I get the most of stress when I do not have enough sleep. I am in a situation where I need to get more things to be done, but I seem to do less and less thing with the same time. Please give me some help.