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Strong Women
How to go to sleep fast: why letting go of trying to sleep could soothe insomnia
3 years ago
2 min read
Insomnia can make us obsessive about sleep. It’s for this reason that insomniac Charlie Brogan finally gave up on trying to sleep – and that decision changed her life.
We’ve all been there – lying wide awake in bed as the night slips away and falls into the morning. The birds chirp outside as we panic at the thought of work in a matter of hours. Oh, my anxiety fizzes at the thought.
We’re experiencing insomnia in the UK at an increasing rate. In 2020, the number of us struggling with insomnia rose from one in six (15.7%) to one in four (24.7%) across a sample size of 15,360 respondents when compared to pre-pandemic figures. Given the timing of that study, it’s hardly surprising that, according to Formulate Health, ‘how to sleep fast’ is currently googled on average 6,700 times a month in the UK. Post-pandemic, it still seems a lot of us are trying and failing to sleep.
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