As a sleep specialist in the NHS I often get presented with lots of different types of supposed sleep cures that can fix insomnia. But do these work? The reality is that they don’t work. The reason is that insomnia is a pattern of behaviour that happens over time. No amount of things that we…
Like weight loss, CBT-i is a behavioral treatment that means you have to do the work. It’s not something you can take, it’s not something reactive that will just happen in a night. It’s something that requires consistent behaviour change and like weight loss, it is a very scientific process. We know that if you…
“I was lying down, eyes wide open, starting to dread another one of those sleepless nights. I turned to look at the clock; it was 2.30 am. And my husband was sound asleep, the house was quiet. A weird feeling started to grow… I felt I was a bit of an alien. The only person…