Doing This One Thing Makes Insomnia Even Worse, Psychologists Warn

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Doing This One Thing Makes Insomnia Even Worse, Psychologists Warn
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We're not sure exactly how many people have insomnia – estimates range from 10-60 percent of the population – but we are confident that it's linked to several long-term health issues, including depression and cardiovascular disease.

A new study outlines how insomniacs might make their condition even more tiresome: clock-watching , to be technical). It seems this can aggravate insomnia, increase frustration, and lead to higher use of sleepingIt's a sort of negative feedback loop, the researchers found. TMB worsens insomnia and its associated annoyances, leading to more clock-watching and so on.

Dawson and his colleagues looked at sleep-specific data from 4,886 patients who completed a questionnaire at a sleep medical center in Arizona: the severity of their insomnia, the time spent monitoring their behavior while trying to sleep, and their use of both over-the-counter and prescription sleep medications., where variables are statistically compared against each other to find a relationship.

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