Insomnia articles
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My insomnia hell: sleeplessness is a curse – but I think I finally have the answer
Pills, meditation, yoga, sleep restriction I have tried absolutely everything to get some proper rest. Is the solution actually surprisingly simple?I am standing in my bedroom in my boxers and a T-shirt, while a man I have just met fiddles with my legs. His name is Parthasarathi, and he’s here with his boss Julius, who has come to set me up for a polysomnogram – AKA a sleep study. Once they have glued electrodes all over my legs, chest and head, and stuck a cannula into my nostrils, and clipped...
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Warning! Your favorite workout supplement could give you debilitating insomnia and itchy skin
Pre-workout is incredibly popular, but might come with intense side effects. One woman shared how she became dependent on it, and developed insomnia. READ MORE:
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Sex, insomnia and swimming trunks: an exclusive extract from Kafka’s uncensored diaries
Between 1909 and 1923, Franz Kafka kept what he called his Tagebücher, or “diaries”. At first glance, much of their content is strikingly unrecognisable as diary entries – often undated, penned deep into the night in dense handwriting, with crossings-out, corrections and insertions, now and then accompanied by drawings.