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Are you struggling to wind down in the evenings? Does it take you hours to fall asleep? Or maybe you wake up in the middle of the night, covered in cold sweats or with a racing mind? Whatever your sleep disturbance may be, the solution is here. This article provides a comprehensive explanation of the many causes at the root of various sleep disturbances that many suffer from, and what to do to remediate them.
You might be surprised to see that quite a few of the recommendations in this article might differ significantly from many of the sleep-remediation strategies out there.
For most of my life, sleep was not something that I had to think about deeply. Nightfall came, I closed my eyes and came back online 8 hours later. Whether I was going through a period of excessive psychological stress, undereating, excessively worrying about something silly, or staring at a laptop screen set to full brightness immediately before bed, my sleep seemed bulletproof. However, as I came to learn, there are only so many stressors that a body can accumulate throughout life until one of its most basic functions - sleep - starts falling apart.
My first major encounter with restless sleep was a few-month-long episode of night-waking that I experienced in However, that one was quite easily remediated, and after overcoming it, I thought that any sort of sleep problems were now far behind me. This time around it took significantly more effort to pull my sleep out of a hole.
