Category: Sleep & Anxiety
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What Happens to Your Brain When You Do Not Sleep Enough
Something happened to me about four years ago that I still think about. I had been running on six hours of sleep for several months. Not dramatically short. Six hours sounds almost reasonable when you say it out loud. I was functional. I was getting things done. I told myself I was someone who simply…
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I’m Scared of Insomnia
Being scared of insomnia is common, and it has a name: sleep anxiety. It describes the worry a person feels about whether they will fall asleep, stay asleep, or function the next day. In more severe cases, this can develop into somniphobia, an intense fear of sleep itself. The fear of insomnia often becomes the…