Sign in with Facebook
Loading...
91st out of 101 books
—
23 voters
No More Sleepless Nights
An estimated 100 million Americans suffer from some sort of sleep problems, occurring from infancy to old age. Insomnia affects mental and physical health and can contribute to driving accidents, illness, and depression. This new edition presents the latest research on sleep disorders, covering many different recommendations and approaches. Stress induced insomnia, physica...more
Paperback, 304 pages
Published
August 13th 1996
by John Wiley & Sons
(first published April 5th 1990)
Friend Reviews
To see what your friends thought of this book,
please sign up.
Community Reviews
(showing
1-30
of
82)
A few tips--otherwise, ugh. "Never TRY to fall asleep." Oh, yes, there was a wonderful story about circadian rhythms that was fascinating. In a test, a girl who was fired for always being late for work was isolated and allowed to sleep, wake, and work whenever she felt like it. She accomplished great amounts of work, and slept wonderfully. She guessed she had been isolated about seven or eight days. It was closer to twenty-five days.
I was really disappointed with this book. It was recommended to me by my doctor but I didn't learn any new tips or tricks to help me with my sleep.
Good information. I was not aware of the bad effects of sleeping pills, so was worth reading. I did benefit from the knowledge.
This is an older book on one Doctor's sleep research experiences and understanding of disorders. I found it to be interesting, but it is old enough that it has very little on sleep apnea, which is all the rage in sleep research. It also has a real bias against sleep medicines, and supports some ideas that are not so common in more recent books. Still has a lot of good information.
This is about as good as a book on this topic can be, I guess. Most of it is general common sense.
However, there was one good section on some mental techniques (things to think about) that allow sleep to come faster. For example, one strategy I often employ is imagining a huge expanse of stars, and then writing numbers as large as I can across the sky. It is surprisingly effective.
However, there was one good section on some mental techniques (things to think about) that allow sleep to come faster. For example, one strategy I often employ is imagining a huge expanse of stars, and then writing numbers as large as I can across the sky. It is surprisingly effective.
I didn't actually read this cover-to-cover. Instead, I read the parts that applied to me. I found this book to be really helpful. I am now convinced that I must stop taking sleeping pills (which don't really seem to help me much anyway).
This book has good advice but there isn't much I haven't read before.
Nov 23, 2007
Malbadeen
rated it
2 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
people with time on their hands....at 3:00a.m.
Shelves:
nonfiction
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
May 09, 2013
Ellen Matheney mcdaniel
is currently reading it
Apr 27, 2013
Eric Lach
marked it as to-read
Apr 16, 2013
Carol
is currently reading it
Apr 09, 2013
Matthew Jankowski
marked it as to-read
Apr 08, 2013
Caitie
marked it as to-read
Apr 06, 2013
Kathleen Dunne
added it
Mar 05, 2013
Hollie Stelter
marked it as to-read
Feb 12, 2013
Zakounts
is currently reading it
Feb 03, 2013
Ryan Schoenbeck
added it
Jan 11, 2013
杨
marked it as to-read
There are no discussion topics on this book yet.
Be the first to start one »
Nov 23, 2007 01:42pm