Sleep quality is one of the essential ingredients to longevity, energy levels and mood. As part of a larger outline project I am developing on conquering depression, I have split off the subsection on sleep quality to work on separately. I want to share this with you in hopes it will help. This is a work in progress. You'll have to check back from time to time as it develops. I am currently adding citations everywhere I can.
Sleep disorders are becoming very common in the modern era, mostly because of our technology enabled lifestyles. More recently scientists are discovering the importance of sleep and its effect on energy, mood, memory and cognition. They're even pushing for a change in school hours for children as a result of this new understanding.
A few years back in 2013 I had an acute bout of insomnia that lasted nearly two months. Distraught, I sought medical help from the University of Pennsylvania Sleep Center and Sleepio, a UK website for CBTi (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia) with an evidence based program for getting sleep back on track. I also discovered I had sleep apnea after I spent a night at U Penn for a sleep study, where nurses attached numerous wires and other various monitoring gadgets to my head, fingers and nose. I slept for only a few hours that night but it was enough to give them the data they needed. Wearing the CPAP sucks but it was like night and day in terms of the energy I had. The doctors as well as the sleep CBT program taught me a lot about sleep and since then, over the past few years, we've learned a lot more about sleep in the world of science.
So without further adieu.
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Edited by Nate-2004, 19 January 2018 - 07:58 PM.