How can a person get better from insomnia?

Answer 1

According to Maxmen & Ward (1995) in "Essential Psychopathology and Its Treatement," 1. Keep an unrealistic goal of the number of hours of sleep you should have. If you really only need six or seven hours, make eight or nine the goal. If you are age 65 or over and once needed eight hours but now need only seven hours, ignore than and shoot for eight hours.

2. Catastrophize about not meeting this goal, especially in the middle of the night. For example, think, "I will never be able to function tomorrow unless I get more sleep. I probably will (fail, flunk, get fired-nonsleeper's choice) if I don't sleep enough."

3. Remembers, hours of insomnia expand proportionally to the number of hours spent in bed. If you need seven hours of sleep in every 24 hours and nine hours in bed, you can guarantee at least two hours of insomnia. Taking a one-hour nap during the day can help increase this to three hours of insomnia. Because you know have had three hours of insomnia, spend ten hours in bed the next night trying to get enough sleep.

4. Spend all of the desperate hours fighting to get to sleep in bed. In Pavlovian fashion, this will make the bed a stimulus for profound upset.

5. Make the bed a center for many other daily activities - reading, writing, TV, etc. The bed then becomes a cue for many more things than sleep.

6. Talk to your doctor about medicines that may help.

Answer 2

You can train yourself to go to be a little later and later each night until you body becomes accustom to the amount of time you sleep each night and it will be hard to sleep longer than that, but trust me, you don't want to have insomnia. Its horrible. I got insomnia because i was taking Adderall for a while that i wasnt supposed to be taking and i stayed up for a very very long time and it made me get insomnia. Here i am over 7 months later and i still only sleep 3 hours a night. You do not want to get insomnia it is not fun. And also taking adderall when you are not supposed to be taking it is dangerous, addictive and also illegal.

Answer 3

there is many different ways like drugs {mostly marijuanna} or it could even be somehting you were born with! it means that you have trouble sleeping or you cant stay asleep for more than certain or unknown hours.