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| View Larger Image | The Insomnia Answer: A Personalized Program for Identifying and Overcoming the Three Types ofInsomnia | Paperbackby Paul Glovinsky (Author), Art Spielman (Author)
| List Price: | $14.95 | |
| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Perigee Trade | | Page Count: | 272 Pages | | Publication Date: | December 05, 2006 | | Sales Rank: | 830,786th |
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Product Description
Finally, a groundbreaking, drug-free solution that works-first time in paperback. The 50 million Americans who suffer from insomnia need-and want-this answer now. There is no "one size fits all" solution to insomnia because, as this revolutionary book illustrates, there are three types that affect those who suffer from it: difficulty falling asleep, difficulty staying asleep, and broken sleep. And each of them requires a specialized treatment program. Now, leading experts in the evaluation and treatment of insomnia deliver personalized programs that provide relief for solve such persistent sleep problems as: - Sunday night insomnia - Anxiety caused by the "dread of bedtime" - Waking before the alarm - Awaking with a sudden start or jolt - Scattered sleep patterns Based on cutting-edge knowledge of circadian rhythms developed in research labs for decades, this is the first sleep program that helps readers to self-diagnose and treat their particular type of insomnia. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 7 reviews)
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I had almost forgotten what a good night's sleep felt like... by Andrea (IL)  5 Stars
June 14, 2009
This book helped me overcome a bout of insomnia that developed after the birth of my daughter. I had become so accustomed to waking 2 to 3 times in the night that once she started sleeping all the way through, I discovered that I could not. Functioning on poor quality and little quantity of sleep for over a year had me at the breaking point - and the tips in this book had me getting better sleep within a week. After a few weeks I was sleeping like a normal person again! I truly had forgotten what it was like to get a good night's sleep (and how I looked without dark rings around my eyes).
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The Insomnia Answer by J. Miller 5 Stars
August 24, 2008
This book as recommended to me by a sleep therapist. It is well-written and easy to understand. After taking sleeping pills for 6 months, I am now using the ideas in this book to sleep chemical-free. I have already recommended this book to several friends.
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New research insights bring real results by Roy Massie (Birmingham, AL United States) 5 Stars
November 19, 2007
I have struggled with insomnia for years. My case is not as severe as some, but it reached the point where I usually would not get a complete night's sleep without sleeping pills. This book has given me a new way to think about sleep and some tactics for sleeping better.
The authors are experienced clinicians who have studied sleep patterns for years, and use that information to treat patients. I will summarize the main points that directly relate to improving your sleep:
1. Understand how sleep and waking times are driven by two independent forces in your physiology. When these two forces get out of sync, insomnia is often the result. This model breaks away from the old - "you get tired then you get some sleep to get refreshed and start over" - view we all understand. Sleep and waking cycles are more subtly connected. Understanding the overlap and "waves" of these forces in our bodies is a helpful new way to think about sleeping problems. This is the model coming from the extensive clinical experience of the authors.
2. It is helpful to categorize your insomnia into 1) trouble getting to sleep 2) trouble staying asleep, and 3) broken sleep all night. This is not new, but the treatments coming from the sleep/wake cycles model combine with this categorization. There is also good information about how issues such as depression, shift work, breathing difficulties and others can bring about specific patterns.
3. There are some "sleep hygiene" practices you need to follow for better sleep. Most of these are pretty well known - avoiding caffeine, exercising at sensible hours (not too late), not depending on sleeping pills, avoiding excessive napping, etc. These are reviewed and shown how they can disrupt the sleep/wake cycle
4. Utilize less obvious practices such as sleep reduction/consolidation (this is the main one helping me), bright light therapy, worry lists, buffer relaxation before going to bed, how to monitor your readiness for sleep as you approach bedtime, etc. One of the more surprising approaches shows you how to shift your sleep clock ahead a full day (chronotherapy) - but this is not applicable in all cases.
The book is very helpful and I recommend it. I think it spends a bit too many pages (almost a third of the book) in the early chapters talking about how people get insomnia, night owls vs. morning larks, etc. However, one of the main points of the book is to literally change how you think about sleep so you can be more positive about it, so this information is useful - it just could be compressed a bit to save reading time. The sleep/wake "waves" model is the brilliant conceptual insight and the practical what-exactly-to-dos also really help.
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The Insomnia Answer.......finally one that works by ssleepless in nyc nomore 5 Stars
March 06, 2006
I have had insomnia for the past twelve years trying every med for insomnia on the market. After reading The Insomnia Answer I was motivated to try sleep restriction therapy and it works and I sleep better than I have in many years and don't wake-up drowsy or feel at all drug-dependent. A brilliant and very useful book for anyone suffering from sleep deprivation.
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catching the wave works by Anthemia (New York City) 5 Stars
January 21, 2006
These authors have found the right metaphor for me. Suffering from occasional bouts of sleeplessness after a stressful day at work, I have found that rereading the last chapter before bed, or in the middle of the night, eases me into a relaxed rhythmic state where I trust I'll slip into sleep--if not this wave, the next.
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