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After a long day and an even longer week of very little sleep, my insomnia wreaked absolute havoc on my mind and body. It is Friday night, there is no...

Everyone gets sick - and being sick can and often does interfere with sleep regularly - even for the average person who does not live with a sleep disorder. Now...

What happens when you follow your regular sleep routine, climb into bed... and proceed to never fall asleep? Any normal person might ask “how is that even possible.'' These comments...

At least once a week, I battle through the school day after a sleepless night. I manage to make it through the workday after tossing and turning, trying not to...

As someone who has lived with insomnia for quite some time, I'm intimately familiar with the frustration that is needing a nap. Now, this isn't an elective decision to rest...

Over the years, I have learned so much about my insomnia, my triggers, and when it gets worse and when it eases up. I do not think I ever really...

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) affects about 20 percent of the population. People with GERD regularly experience heartburn. Heartburn is a burning sensation in the chest area. It is caused by...

Oftentimes, when I go to bed my body signals to my brain that I am exhausted and ready to sleep. In response, upon climbing under the covers, my brain decides...

I have been experiencing insomnia since I was a young girl. As a teenager it was a lot more prevalent, and over the years it has varied in severity. There...

Does your brain race you into total panic or wide-eyed-wakefulness in the middle of the night? Does your hamster wheel spin so loudly it could wake the neighbors? Mine did...

Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night starving? Does going to the kitchen, finding and consuming a snack prevent you from falling back asleep? I have...

I never knew that microsleep was a thing. I should known though, as it is something I have been experiencing for the last few years. There just was not a...

If you clicked on this article, you probably already know about cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I; if not, start here). You have probably already heard that it is a...

Everyone who shares a bed knows there are nuisances, quirks, or even challenges in sleeping beside the one you love. From taking up more than your allotted spot on the...

Of all the things my child will and has inherited from me, I do so wish for her that insomnia is not one of them. She has that same fiery...

This is an anonymized pseudo-case study of "Cassie" and her journey of weaning off of the sleeping medication Ambien (zolpidem). It is pretty representative of the processes people go through...

Insomnia has been around for me for many years. It has kept me from sleep and cost me many dear things in my life. This morning as I sat and...

I laid in my daughter's bed the other night holding her hand as she drifted off to dreamland, I thought about how different sleep can be for a small child...

Insomnia is one of the words that carries such weight in my world. There are in fact a few single words that bear a lot of weight in my life...

I am amazed at how much some people will pay for bottles and boxes of pills and potions at the health food store. This is even for "unproven" supplements. And...