Who wouldn't be? You're telling me this crown-like thingamajig can actually cure my insomnia — with AI and binaural beats? Pfft, no way. Nope. I don't believe it. However, Earable Neuroscience (the team behind Frenz) sent me a unit for me to test ahead of its CES 2024 showcase...
He’s impenetrable, a fortress of steel forever on guard, and because I suffer from Bipolar I Disorder, two hours of sleep is the most I can muster before Lizard Boy wakes me up. What a way to live. I’m sure this insomnia is dragging me to a premature death. I guess it’s ...
One of the more paradoxical CBT-I methods used to help insomniacs sleep is to restrict their time spent in bed, perhaps even to just six hours of sleep or less to begin with. By keeping patients awake for longer, we build up a strong sleep pressure—a greater abundance of adenosine. Un...
Low intensity CBT-based interventions use a minimum level of inter- vention essential to enhance mental health and well- being [17]. Much of the low intensity interventions use novel interactive communication technologies. They might support long-term lifestyle changes because they deliver swift and...
I recently took part in a CBT course, which restricted my hours in bed to 5, as advocated above. My sleep efficiency rapidly rose to 80%, but after 5 weeks rose no higher. My total sleep time was thus reduced to 4 hours per night. Not surprisingly, I felt terrible, until abandoning...
Every item on my list of sorrows was real. But that was only one way—a narrow and biased one, at that—of presenting my life. I could have written this instead: “You guys, the past few years have been incredible. I met amazing people who changed my life. I got to visit Iceland...