The Insomnia Challenge: Share this post with a few sentences about how you overcame your struggle with insomnia.
by Brian Curtis, Ph.D.
In need of cancer treatment? You wouldn't look confused if your oncologist recommended chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or surgery.
Struggling with insomnia disorder? If the 4 letters C, B, T, and I don't immediately ring a bell as the #1 recommended, most-effective treatment (yup, before any sleeping meds are considered), then you're in the same boat that I was in for 21 years.
It took me stumbling ass backwards into the field of sleep medicine to learn I'd been doing insomnia wrong.
6 weeks later, my 126 week struggle was over.
Ya, it took behavior change, but not that much. A few simple principles and an explanation for why they worked was the ticket.
This ultimately put me on the path to becoming a specialist in behavioral sleep medicine and spending over 90%of my clinical time treating chronic insomnia with CBT-I. And I absolutely love it :)
So, that's my story.
For some reason, insomnia has the problem that diabetes and cancer don't. All 3 disorders have consensus agreement about the most effective treatments.
Only insomnia seems to have a spreading-the-word problem.
So, here's my insomnia challenge for you ... SPREAD THE WORD BY SHARING YOUR STORY.
Share this post with a few sentences about how you overcame your struggle with insomnia.
If you're like me and CBT-I was the golden ticket to the chocolate factory of slumber ... people who are currently suffering need to know that.
If something other than CBT-I was your ticket ... let us know the secret combination.
There's the challenge. I hope you'll take it.
