Insomnia: why can’t I sleep?

Millions of people in the UK have trouble sleeping, and Guardian reporter Leah Green is one of them. Like many insomniacs, she has tried all the at-home remedies, sleep hygiene and gadgets designed to cure her sleep problems. She finds out why it is so difficult to conquer insomnia, and why good treatment is so hard to come by
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Waking up to the health benefits of sleep Sources ► https://www.rsph.org.uk/our-work/policy/wellbeing/sleep.html

Increased Prevalence of Insomnia and Changes in Hypnotics Use in England over 15 Years: Analysis of the 1993, 2000, and 2007 National Psychiatric Morbidity Surveys Sources ►
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3274339/

The natural history of insomnia: focus on prevalence and incidence of acute insomnia.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22800714

Epidemiology of insomnia: a longitudinal study in a UK population Sources ► https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17425223

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