When I talk to patients who have insomnia and sleep problems, it’s not the actual symptoms of sleep that they describe to me… It’s how insomnia can make anyone feel so lonely and isolated from our society, family and friends. It makes us feel like we don’t have control over our own bodies anymore or…
What’s the trick to get back to sleep in the middle of the night? This is a question that people are expecting me to easily answer as a sleep clinician. But actually, it requires a more complicated answer than expected… If this is happening to you over and over again, it means you have a…
I have been studying sleep for a long time. Dealing with many different types of patients. I even worked at Harvard labs doing studies around astronauts’ sleep and blue light. And, a really interesting subject that comes up is sleep debt. Our natural tendency As humans, we feel that we need to recover when we…
We know that we have a treatment for insomnia that works… I’ve been doing it for the last 15 or more years, treating hundreds and if not thousands of patients. And this question often comes up… And my answer is always: It’s a lot easier than having the condition. It does take some time because…
Insomnia isn’t just a sleep problem We’ve talked about the different types of insomnia and what happens in your sleep…But you know that this isn’t just a sleep problem. From all the patients I’ve treated, a lot of the same themes keep coming up… Insomnia is one of the most lonely conditions I’ve ever heard…