Insomnia helped by Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/16/health/16slee.html?pagewanted=print Help for Chronic Insomnia Isn't Always Found in a Pill By JANE E. BRODY <quote> Recent reports of bizarre sleepwalking behaviors, including middle-of-the-night binge eating and even driving a car, among patients taking the popular sleeping pill Ambien have led some health professionals to focus on drug-free methods of treating chronic insomnia.
Sleep therapists have demonstrated the effectiveness of a brief form of psychotherapy called cognitive behavioral therapy.
Through it, patients learn to restructure their thinking about sleep, which is often erroneous, and to change counterproductive bedtime habits.
Should insomnia recur after formal therapy ends, patients have the tools to make corrections on their own. Or, if self-help fails, they see the therapist for a refresher session.
</quote> There's not a lot that's new here, but some of the package includes: Figure out how much sleep you really need and budget it.
Set and keep a consistent bed time and getting up time.
If you don't fall asleep within 20 minutes, get up and do something quietly distracting.
Avoid naps.
Figure out what helps and hinders _your_ sleep (quiet, constant sound, dark, warm, cold), and disentangle these from rigid beliefs (e.g., can't fall asleep unless room temperature is exactly 65).
Avoiding alcohol before bedtime.
FurPaw
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Don't think of it as getting hot flashes.
Think of it as your inner child playing with matches.
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"Cathy F." c...@adelphia.net
What I immediately wonder is this, though: if this can be effective for the type of insomnia that is caused by a too-active mind, Vs. the kind that has physical roots (what appears to be the sort that occurs in menopause).
Cathy
FurPaw furrealpaw...@gmail.com
The article mentions that the technique helped a women who had had restless leg syndrome for many years. That pretty clearly has physical roots.
FurPaw
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Don't think of it as getting hot flashes.
Think of it as your inner child playing with matches.
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"Cathy F." c...@adelphia.net
I have to admit I didn't read the article - time-wise, I''ve been running on catch-up/treading water for the last week...
Cathy
FurPaw furrealpaw...@gmail.com
No prob. You must be in the last throes of the school year.
When does school end for you?
FurPaw
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Don't think of it as getting hot flashes.
Think of it as your inner child playing with matches.
To reply, unleash the dog
"Cathy F." c...@adelphia.net
Partially school/work, but other stuff, too. June 23.
Cathy
"Jette Goldie" bossl...@scotlandmail.com
done that.
Do that.
Oh I do *that* - but what do you do if you fall asleep and then wake up 90 minutes later?
I was never able to "nap".
Do that.
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Jette Goldie je...@blueyonder.co.uk http://www.jette.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ ("reply to" is spamblocked)
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