Is sertraline side effect (sleep interruption) outweighing the medication's anti anxiety benefits?

Context: I’m a 28 y old male who just started taking sertraline for mild-moderate anxiety. My most notorious side effect was sleep interruption. I would take it at 10/11pm at night before bed, and I’d be wide awake at 5am. It’d take some effort and 30-60 minutes to go back to sleep. Important to note that I’d try to go back to sleep to get my 7-7.5h of wholesome sleep, not because of a feeling of fatigue. I felt “fine” restwise after rising at 5am. Maybe a subtle, new kind of fatigue but not the face-punching fatigue that made me feel sick on occasions when I slept <5h before sertraline treatment. I switched to taking sertraline in the morning and the problem partly went away. So instead of interrupting sleep after ~5 hours, now it’s interrupted after 6, 6.5.

Question: There’s a book called Why We Sleep by UC Berkeley neuroscientist Matthew Walker that expounds on the many benefits of healthy, wholesome sleep. My question is if my sertraline side effect of sleep interruption could be offsetting the benefits of the medication itself. Not only 1-for-1 in the case of anxiety –I take sertraline for anxiety, but not sleeping well causes anxiety– but also more generally, is the sleep interruption affecting other areas of my life and outweighing the benefits of sertraline? Any research studies you can share on this?

Alternatively, I know different people at different stages of their life require different hours of sleep. For some it’s 6 hours. For others, 8. For myself before sertraline, ~7.5. Did sertraline just lower that healthy threshold to a new, normal, healthy threshold of 6, 6.5 hours for me and that’s totally fine? Many thanks in advance for your thoughts!

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