Table of contents:
- 1. Go to bed sooner or later
- 2. Watching TV or reading in bed
- 3. Drink coffee, take a nap, or reduce daily activity
2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44
Don't listen to the advice of your loved ones. In most cases, they not only do not help, but, on the contrary, exacerbate sleep problems.
Psychologists have learned how people help their partners cope with insomnia. It turned out that most often (albeit with good intentions) they give bad advice.
1. Go to bed sooner or later
In fact, for insomnia, it is important to stick to your usual regimen. If you go to bed earlier, you will simply toss and turn in bed and think why you cannot sleep. And if you lie down and get up later, you will simply break the cycle of sleep and wakefulness.
2. Watching TV or reading in bed
Better to use the bed only for sleeping (and maybe for another enjoyable activity). Your brain must clearly internalize this association. Other activities in bed will definitely not help you fall asleep.
Plus, TVs and other devices with screens activate the brain. So the advice is doubly dubious.
3. Drink coffee, take a nap, or reduce daily activity
No, no and NO. Taking a nap during the day is dangerous because, again, you can throw off your schedule. Idleness will only increase insomnia. And it is unnecessary to talk about the effect of caffeine on sleep.
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