Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Insomnia - personal management

Author: Dr Peremarty MD: Sleep and general medicine
2013/06/05
  • How to manage the problems of insomnia ?
  • When can the treatments be used . 
  • The personal management; 
  • The vicious circle of the sleeping pills: 
  • Basic principles of self-management; 
  • Efficiency of the program.

Monday, December 2, 2013

Insomnia - wanting to sleep

Author: Dr Peremarty MD: Sleep and general medicine
2013/06/05
Insomnia is the illness of someone who suffers from being awake when he/she wishes to sleep.

That suffering is amplified by the conjunction of two factors :
    Vicious circle of acquired insomnia.
  • on one hand, the subject loses a lot of time in bed for nothing because he/she thinks (right or wrong) that he/she has to wait for the sleep to come;
  • on the other hand, he/she strongly overestimates the length of that wait, because he/she develops the skills of a watcher which he/she uses to watch out for his/her arousals, like would (for example) do a doctor on ward all over the night.