anxiety driven insomnia is what a lot people struggle with. after 3 years, what has helped me the most is really just not giving a flying f**k about sleep and a few other things. I'm sleeping amazing now.
So it's a bit of a chicken and egg situation with anxiety and insomnia. Anxiety can trigger insomnia which then develops into long term chronic insomnia if people trip down the rabbit hole of control, obsession / changing their behaviours etc. Or you can start with insomnia before anxiety, and once you have insomnia you are then 18X (one study has shown) to develop anxiety. But yes what most of the insomnia treatments out there don't understand is that people become anxious about sleep itself - terriefied of the bed and the bedroom, scared of staying in a hotel, meeting up with friends, watching TV before bed (good sleepers do this don't they!?) and it just feeds into the condition. But yes you're 100% correct, once the obession / control and fear around sleep ends people sleep - it just takes a lot of steps to get people there (including physiologically rebuilding peoples sleep drive / body clock through behavioural changes) Really happy you are now sleeping well! what you said about essentially not caring is the end goal of my treatment and sleeping well is a side effect of this, so you are spot on!
Hi doc , i want to ask what is it that i am actually dreaming while closed eyes n was sleeping but I always feel like that i wasn't sleeping even my mother told me that i was snoring . What's it
Hello Sir I need your advice, I have been suffering from insomnia for about 8 years, it started suddenly when I was getting sleep but someone distracted it by coming into the room and I couldn’t sleep all night, since then, my sleeping changed from very heavy to a really light sleep.. and I started to get insomnia more often and it get worse every time.. what should I do right now? I went to a psychiatrist and he gave me sleep medicine but I’m afraid from using it..can you give some advices?
Hi the trigger really doesn't matter - what happened is that following the trigger your behaviours almost certainly changes, sleep got even worse and then you tripped down the rabbit hole of anxiety, fear, worry obsession fear worry and then it spiralled from there. I would lead with behavioural changes to rebuild your pattern of sleep / re set your body clock / sleep drive and give your sleep consistency and predictability. The two most important ones that get the fastest results are sleep windows / counter control. You will find both of these on my playlist here: www.youtube.com/@InsomniaTalks/playlists Take a watch of the playlist - New to the channel? start here! Work your way through all these videos and start putting the recommended behaviour changes in place. After that, have a binge watch of my channel and or get my step-by-step online programme that will tell you exactly what to do week by week - you'll find it on sleepze.com
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anxiety driven insomnia is what a lot people struggle with. after 3 years, what has helped me the most is really just not giving a flying f**k about sleep and a few other things. I'm sleeping amazing now.
So it's a bit of a chicken and egg situation with anxiety and insomnia. Anxiety can trigger insomnia which then develops into long term chronic insomnia if people trip down the rabbit hole of control, obsession / changing their behaviours etc.
Or you can start with insomnia before anxiety, and once you have insomnia you are then 18X (one study has shown) to develop anxiety.
But yes what most of the insomnia treatments out there don't understand is that people become anxious about sleep itself - terriefied of the bed and the bedroom, scared of staying in a hotel, meeting up with friends, watching TV before bed (good sleepers do this don't they!?) and it just feeds into the condition.
But yes you're 100% correct, once the obession / control and fear around sleep ends people sleep - it just takes a lot of steps to get people there (including physiologically rebuilding peoples sleep drive / body clock through behavioural changes)
Really happy you are now sleeping well! what you said about essentially not caring is the end goal of my treatment and sleeping well is a side effect of this, so you are spot on!
Hi doc , i want to ask what is it that i am actually dreaming while closed eyes n was sleeping but I always feel like that i wasn't sleeping even my mother told me that i was snoring . What's it
Hello Sir
I need your advice, I have been suffering from insomnia for about 8 years, it started suddenly when I was getting sleep but someone distracted it by coming into the room and I couldn’t sleep all night, since then, my sleeping changed from very heavy to a really light sleep.. and I started to get insomnia more often and it get worse every time.. what should I do right now? I went to a psychiatrist and he gave me sleep medicine but I’m afraid from using it..can you give some advices?
Hi the trigger really doesn't matter - what happened is that following the trigger your behaviours almost certainly changes, sleep got even worse and then you tripped down the rabbit hole of anxiety, fear, worry obsession fear worry and then it spiralled from there.
I would lead with behavioural changes to rebuild your pattern of sleep / re set your body clock / sleep drive and give your sleep consistency and predictability.
The two most important ones that get the fastest results are sleep windows / counter control.
You will find both of these on my playlist here:
www.youtube.com/@InsomniaTalks/playlists
Take a watch of the playlist - New to the channel? start here!
Work your way through all these videos and start putting the recommended behaviour changes in place.
After that, have a binge watch of my channel and or get my step-by-step online programme that will tell you exactly what to do week by week - you'll find it on sleepze.com
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I don’t believe is hereditary. For most women is because of hormones when they go through menopause.