Sleep is very important for each of us, after falling asleep the substances consumed by the body are replenished, for the next day's activities to accumulate energy, adequate sleep makes people physically and mentally happy. However, with the rapid development of society and the acceleration of the pace of life, sleep problems are gradually becoming younger, and insomnia should not be underestimated.
Insomnia usually refers to a subjective experience in which patients are not satisfied with the time or quality of sleep and affect daytime social functioning, and patients actively seek medical attention. It is divided into acute insomnia and chronic insomnia. Acute insomnia: Insomnia that generally lasts less than 1, often with obvious triggers such as stress, acute pain, or drug abuse. Chronic insomnia: symptoms persist for more than 1 month without relief, falling asleep for 30 minutes, less than 30 minutes to sleep or more than 30 minutes after waking up and not being able to sleep again is the dividing point between normal and abnormal sleep.
The main manifestations of insomnia are:
1. Difficulty falling asleep, falling asleep for more than 30 minutes
2. Wake up early or wake up a lot
3. Total sleep time is less than 6 hours
4. It is accompanied by daytime dysfunction
Zeng Xianxiang, deputy chief physician of the Department of Sleep Disorders and Neuroses of the Second People's Hospital of Hunan Province (Hunan Brain Hospital), introduced that in addition to insomnia, outpatient insomniars are often accompanied by many troubles such as lack of energy, hair loss, obesity, memory loss, etc. Some insomnia patients will also worry about the side effects and physical discomfort brought by drugs to the body, psychological rejection or refusal to use drug treatment. For this part of the patient, psychological and behavioral therapy is the preferred treatment method, the most common is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBTI), cognitive behavioral therapy includes: sleep hygiene education, sleep restriction, stimulation control methods, relaxation therapy, music therapy, etc.
Insomnia cognitive behavioral therapy has now been widely used in the clinic, Director Zeng Xianxiang on the specific therapy introduced: insomniacs must first develop good sleep and eating habits, and learn relaxation training, such as: muscle relaxation, breathing relaxation, listening to music, appropriate exercise, etc., but also have good compliance, under the guidance of the therapist, carefully fill in the sleep diary every day, calculate the sleep efficiency according to the sleep diary, and the therapist limits the patient's sleep time according to the sleep efficiency. So as to achieve the change of the previous poor sleep biological clock, and every week according to the agreed time in the hospital outpatient follow-up, discomfort follow-up.
Through this treatment, many insomnia patients have been relieved of anxiety, sleep quality has also been improved, and the efficacy and safety of long-term treatment are better than drug treatment. In the actual treatment of insomnia, you can also combine multiple methods for multi-mode treatment according to the patient's own situation, and only need to pay for treatment according to the agreed time in the outpatient clinic, do not require hospitalization, so that many insomnia patients bring convenience and bring the gospel, if you are suffering from insomnia and do not want to take medicine, come to the Hunan Provincial Brain Hospital Sleep Disorder and Neurology Outpatient Clinic to try cognitive behavioral therapy!
Contributed by: Yu Junjun, Department of Sleep Disorders and Neuroses, Second People's Hospital of Hunan Province (Hunan Brain Hospital).
Editor: Liu Yuchen
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