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sleep therapy group

Posted by tomwith2cats on May 18, 2005 at 09:56:44:

I've been attending the sleep therapy group at Stanford,
and I had an opportunity to talk one-on-one with
the clinical psychologist who is running this group.
She points out that the main cause of people feeling
exhausted the next day is fragmentation of sleep,
which means that you have lots of short wakenings.
These can be so short you have no memory of them.

A typical cause of constant awakenings is problems
breathing (sleep apnea). If you have obstructed breathing
the brain will wake you up. The main use of an overnite
sleep study is to determine whether you have this.
It's really the only way to prove this.
I've never had one of these but finally decided to do
it, now scheduled for August.

The psychologist thought my main problem, apart from
any possible breathing problems, is anxiety. Insomnia
is really just a side-effect of this. Fixating on the
sleep or lack thereof does nothing to address this,
but only adds a cause of anxiety. Fortunately, after
two years of fighting this problem, i gradually came
to a place where insomnia no longer terrifies me.
A year ago I gave up taking sleep drugs and haven't
taken any since.

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