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In our rapidly changing stress-filled world,
insomnia has become an epidemic. Over
one-half of all adults now complain of trouble
sleeping, up from one-third just a few years
ago. At least 30 million adults endure the
stress of severe, chronic insomnia.
YOU'RE NOT ALONE IN YOUR STRUGGLE TO SLEEP!
Many insomniacs have turned to expensive, time-consuming psychotherapy in the belief (or their physician's belief) that insomnia is caused by "psychological problems". However, there is no scientific proof that psychotherapy is effective for insomnia, in large part because the majority of insomniacs do not have a psychiatric problem such as anxiety or depression.
A study by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center (BIDMC) and Harvard Medical School
has found cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is more effective than sleeping pills in treating chronic sleep-onset insomnia. The findings, which appear in the Sept. 27 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, show non-drug techniques yield better short and long-term results than the most widely prescribed sleeping pill, zolpidem, commonly known as Ambien. It is the first placebo-controlled trial to evaluate the separate and combined effects of CBT and pharmacological therapies in treating insomnia in young and middle-aged adults. “Sleeping pills are the most frequent treatment for insomnia, yet, CBT techniques clearly were more successful in helping the majority of study participants to become normal sleepers. The pills were found to be only moderately effective compared to CBT and lost their effectiveness as soon as they were discontinued,” said study leader Gregg Jacobs, Ph.D., insomnia specialist in the Sleep Disorders Center of BIDMC and an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
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