How to Stop Procrastinating at Bedtime and Actually Go to Sleep
Once I finally tuck my kids into bed, clean the kitchen, and shoot off my last work email of the night, it’s “me” time. It’s also, cruelly, bedtime. I know I should sleep, but instead I stay up way too late binge-watching Love Is Blind or mindlessly scrolling on Reddit. I need rest, but I push it off. This is my only uninterrupted time, and I want to maximize it.
This phenomenon is so universal that there’s a scientific name for it: “bedtime procrastination.” According to the researchers who coined it in a 2014 study, bedtime procrastination is “failing to go to bed at th...
Source: TIME: Health - March 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Friedlander Serrano Tags: Uncategorized Evergreen freelance healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: How staring at a bright light finally cured my insomnia
I've been making a series about sleep, and found out why I have insomnia and that I have another life-shortening condition, obstructive sleep apnea. OSA is common, with up to ten million affected. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Association of sleep reactivity and anxiety sensitivity with insomnia-related depression and anxiety among city government employees in Japan - Okajima I, Kadotani H, on behalf of the NinJa Sleep Study Group.
This study aimed to examine wh... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workload Source Type: news
Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia improves sleep outcomes in individuals with concussion: a preliminary randomized wait-list control study - Ludwig R, Rippee M, D'Silva L, Radel J, Eakman AM, Beltramo A, Drerup M, Siengsukon C.
OBJECTIVE: Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) is the gold standard treatment for insomnia, but there is limited evidence on the treatment effect of CBT-I in individuals after a concussion. Therefore, the main purpose of this study was to eva... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Program and Other Evaluations, Effectiveness Studies Source Type: news
The night and day challenge of sleep disorders and insomnia: a narrative review - San L, Arranz B.
This is a narrative review of sleep disorders, especially chronic insomnia, as a primary diagnosis or as a comorbid diagnosis associated with different psychiatric and organic diseases. The epidemiological evidence is reviewed, the diagnostic criteria most... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 12, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workload Source Type: news
The Isolation of Having Long COVID as Society Moves On
When Karyn Bishof started experiencing Long COVID, there wasn’t a name yet for the symptoms that lingered after her infection in March 2020.
“I had these continued, prolonged symptoms that I wasn’t hearing about initially,” says Bishof, who founded a group called the COVID-19 Longhauler Advocacy Project to help advocate for those suffering with Long COVID. She experienced extreme fatigue, nausea, and insomnia, among other things, but doctors kept testing her for COVID-19, or telling her her symptoms were psychosomatic.
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March 11 marks four years s...
Source: TIME: Health - March 11, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Simmone Shah Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 feature News Desk Source Type: news
Suicidal ideation and attempts and hyperarousal in military personnel and veterans: network analysis reveals roles of anxiety sensitivity and insomnia - Jeon ME, Rogers ML, Udupa N, Joiner TE.
OBJECTIVE: Suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) are a serious public health problem in the United States and of particular concern among active-duty service members and veterans. Research indicates hyperarousal, through its relevance across other disorde... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 11, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Daylight Saving Time Is the Worst
On Sunday, March 10 at 2 a.m., the U.S. and about a third of the world’s other countries will set their clocks forward by one hour, which will make the sun seem to rise later in the morning and hang in the sky longer in the evening. I am not alone in dreading it. Plenty of people want nothing to do with the whole hoary practice.
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It’s bad for health, bad for safety, bad for your mood, and just plain unpopular. But that doesn’t stop us from changing the clocks, pointlessly, twice a year.
The ridiculous history of Daylight Saving Time
The first push for ...
Source: TIME: Health - March 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
'Do not eat' warning on five surprising food and drinks that can cause sleep problems
Consuming these foods and drinks before bed could disrupt your sleep and leave your vulnerable to insomnia. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - March 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Diabetes Risk Rises for Folks Who Get Too Little Sleep
TUESDAY, March 5, 2024 -- Are you typically getting only a few hours sleep each night? Besides leaving you groggy all day, your insomnia could also be raising your odds for type 2 diabetes, new research shows.Compared to people who slept the... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - March 5, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Allegheny Health Network Launches New Program for the Treatment of Insomnia
'Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia' (CBTI) program at AHN takes a unique approach to treating patients with the pervasive sleep disorder PITTSBURGH, March 5, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Allegheny Health Network (AHN) today announced that it has launched a new, evidence-based... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - March 5, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: PDT Source Type: news
Wake up, poor sleepers: Uncovering the real causes behind insomnia and avoiding quick fixes
Sleep struggles in the startup ecosystem lead to dependency on self-prescribed sleep supplements. Doctors urge long-term behavioural changes for better sleep. Exceptions manage to follow the 10-3-2-1-0 method, avoid caffeine, exercise, or have flexible work hours. (Source: The Economic Times)
Source: The Economic Times - March 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Sallie Krawcheck Talks Burnout, Insomnia, and the Loneliness of Being a WFH CEO
The Ellevest founder has found a few strategies for handling entrepreneurial pressures -- but not every source of stress has a solution.#ellevest (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 29, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Long COVID Doesn ’ t Always Look Like You Think It Does
In the spring of 2023, after her third case of COVID-19, Jennifer Robertson started to feel strange. Her heart raced all day long and she could barely sleep at night. She had dizzy spells. She felt pins and needles in her arm, she says, a “buzzing feeling” in her foot, and pain in her legs and lymph nodes. She broke out in a rash. She smelled “phantom” cigarette smoke, even when none was in the air.
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Robertson, 48, had a feeling COVID-19 might have somehow been the trigger. She knew about Long COVID, the name for chronic symptoms following an infection...
Source: TIME: Health - February 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Predictors of early adulthood insomnia following exposure to a single mass violence attack during adolescence: 7-13 year follow-up from the Ut øya and HUNT studies - Porcheret K, Dyb G, Wentzel-Larsen T, Stensland S.
BACKGROUND: The long-term impact of mass violence attacks is practically unknown, especially in children and adolescents. In a previous study, we found that 8.5 years after a terror attack targeting mainly adolescents, nearly half of the survivors met diag... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 26, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news