According to a 1999 survey, about 30% of American women and 20% of men reported taking a medication to help them sleep at some time during the course of a year. Over half of these drugs were over the counter medications.
It should be stressed that only behavioral or psychological techniques can actually cure insomnia, (and that is what this site is dedicated to) whereas prolonged use of sleeping pills can only result in dependency.
However, we recognise that you might still be interested to learn more about the medications that are around so that you can make your own mind. So, here you go……
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How much time do you spend in your bedroom when you are not sleeping? What are you doing there? Did you know that all the non-sleeping activities in your bedroom could be making your sleeplessness worse?
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How we think about sleep can play an important role in how we deal with sleep difficulties.
For this reason, an essential part of your sleep treatment involves identifying your thoughts about sleep that tend to make sleeping more difficult and replacing these thoughts with more helpful thinking.
Pay attention to your thinking about sleep and consider alternatives, and you will probably notice two common misconceptions that you need to address before you are going to start sleeping well:
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Insomnia does not always start off as a difficult condition to manage. For many people, it is triggered by a particularly stressful or disturbing event or series of events and before they know it – a bad habit of sleep has developed.
But why and how does this really occur?
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Insomnia comes in many shapes and forms from intermittant to chronic, and with many different causes. This is can make this condition so frustrating – there could be many interconnecting causes of your insomnia and the resolution of just one cause may not resolve all the symptoms of insomnia.
However, the more you learn and take action, the more empowered you are to apply the right tactics and bring relief.
Here are the 10 most common causes of insomnia – remember you may relate to more than one of these, but use this as a guide to unravel the mystery of your insomnia and seek the best course of action for you.
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