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How to Overcome Insomnia: Insights from Kathryn Pinkham of the Insomnia Clinic

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How to Reduce Sleep Restrictions

The first thing that we would get people to do, I like to put sleep scheduling, not sleep restriction. So if you are in bed for eight hours but only getting sort of five hours of broken sleep, what we have there is this sort of large window of time in bed and all this time in there associating your bed with the wrong stuff. We're saying to your body clock, okay, you have no opportunity outside of this window to sleep. You need to make the most of itHigher the drive, the faster we fall asleep and the less times we'd wake in the night. If we did wait, we'd fall asleep faster.

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