Sleepio Fixed it when the Quick Fix gadgets failed

Always as I recall, I had trouble sleeping at night. Like many people, I struggle with intrusive thoughts and find it hard to turn them off. Going to bed creates repetitive conversations, worries about my children, or embarrassing confusion and embarrassment about social success. Early awakenings, hungry cats, tweeted tweets, and a stubborn bladder have all had my insomnia. Whatever the reason, burning a candle at both ends makes me feel stressed, urduri, and disappointed.

That’s how I got to Sleepio, a six-week digital course that uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to overcome sleep problems, with Colin Espie, a professor of sleep medicine at Oxford University. Great health Co-founder Peter Hames coped with chronic insomnia, but found success with CBT techniques after reading a book by Espie. The two then teamed up to develop Sleepio, bringing evidence-based and cognitive-behavioral techniques to the masses who had no sleep.

I’m glad it worked for me. For the first time in years, I sleep regularly at seven-hour intervals.

Serious sleep

It gets less than a lot of people seven hours a night recommended for adults. Sleep disorders are common, but more than a third of U.S. adults occasionally experience symptoms of insomnia, and one in 10 has a chronic illness, according to American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Treatment generally consists of two camps; pharmacological or the aforementioned CBT.

“Some clinical trials have compared the two, and the results are truly astounding,” says Rebecca Robbins, a sleep scientist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School’s Sleep and Circadian Disorders Division. “We see that the behavioral component performs better than pharmacological treatment.”

Drugs have side effects and often mask the symptoms rather than address the root of the problem. Although anecdotal, the medication makes me feel uncomfortable in the morning and does little for the quality of my writing. Both National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and American University of Physicians they now prefer drug-free therapies, including behavioral therapies, as the first line of treatment for insomnia.

Me too has tested a variety of sleeping gadgets and applications those who promise a good night closed without much success. It’s hard to understand what will work and how to choose with this amazing range of options.

“The market can be like the Wild West, because not everything is developed with scientific literature in mind,” says Robbins. “To get through the noise as a consumer, look at the products and see if they’ve been tested in a clinical trial or developed in collaboration with anyone with a background in sleep science or sleep medicine.”

Sleepio Success

One of the conditions for agreeing that Espie would help develop Sleepio was a randomized placebo-controlled trial. like this, before testing the effectiveness and security of the software. In 12 trials, with more than 9,000 participants, Sleepio was shown to help people sleep 54% faster, spend 62% less time waking up at night, and help them function better 45 percent the next day.