“When it was time for bed, I would just lay there with my eyes closed and watch streams of code in my head”. says Charles Bellisamo, a software engineer in Chicago describing his nightly experiences with insomnia as “having a brain that was stuck in 5th gear”.
According to a recent study by Sarrafi Zadeh S & Begum K entitled: “Association between insomnia and quality of life: an exploratory study among software engineers “.
Continue reading “Software Developers and Insomnia: Pushing Beta Brainwaves to Extremes.” »
The number one challenge for panic attack sufferers is moving about freely in public. Anxiety, environmental stress and interacting with other people can leave those with severe anxiety and panic exhausted and frustrated.
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Arianna Huffington’s Sleep Challenge 2010 is perhaps the most significant wake up call for American women since Gloria Steinem published Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions in 1983. Yet for many women, even with the best of efforts, trying to sleep better still remains a waking nightmare. Pharmaceutical firms sold $ 4.5 billion worth of sleep mediations to us in 2009, while the number of chronically sleep deprived in this country now tops 70 million and continues to climb.
For many women, being asked to adjust their sleep times and drink less caffeine simply rings hollow. They are hopelessly addicted to sleeping pills and hearing of others progress using these “tips and tricks” only makes them feel more left out and alone than they already had been before. This hopeless desperation can be a dangerous thing, because long term insomnia often leads to increased risk for heart attacks, strokes and suicide in females.
Continue reading “Ambien Addiction: Is America One Nation, Under Sedation? (Part One)” »
With the recession in full swing, Americans are now showing deepening signs of psychiatric and emotional problems due to unabated economic stress.
“Its’ almost like PTSD on a daily installment plan”, says David A. Mayen, director of the Sleep Recovery Centers in Manhattan Beach, Ca. “People are coming to us with jobs and savings intact but are traumatized by the very idea that they may still lose everything, no matter how hard they work. They can’t sleep and are having pretty severe anxiety and panic attacks”. According to Mayen, the assistance for generalized anxiety and panic is medically limited. They’re family doctors mean well, but other than prescribing anti-anxiety medications like Xanax for stress and Ambien for sleep, they don’t know what else to do for these patients. And once a person stops taking the medications, the symptoms can return worse than before.
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