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Yesterday I started reading You Are Getting Sleepy, a book about lifestyle related approaches to insomnia. In the first chapter, the author asks some questions about the reader's experience of being unable to sleep. I now wonder if I don't have insomnia so much as I simply don't need a lot of sleep. (I do have bad nights. Many people do. But overall, five hours a night of really solid sleep actually sorta seems to work, and perhaps I should just stop worrying about it.)
Info for anyone else interested in the book: He writes about how various conditions are linked to insomnia, such as chronic pain, depression, etc. He asks the insightful question of which came first - do you wake up because you hurt, or do you hurt more because you're not sleeping well? Studies suggest the latter! But after that, he disappointed me by recommending all the usual sleep hygiene stuff, things good sleepers simply don't do. By his own thought process, good sleep hygiene should be evaluated as a possible cause of insomnia. Fah.
Anyway, I'm going to try to stop worrying about sleep. It seems I'm mostly okay.
Info for anyone else interested in the book: He writes about how various conditions are linked to insomnia, such as chronic pain, depression, etc. He asks the insightful question of which came first - do you wake up because you hurt, or do you hurt more because you're not sleeping well? Studies suggest the latter! But after that, he disappointed me by recommending all the usual sleep hygiene stuff, things good sleepers simply don't do. By his own thought process, good sleep hygiene should be evaluated as a possible cause of insomnia. Fah.
Anyway, I'm going to try to stop worrying about sleep. It seems I'm mostly okay.
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