Many of the patients I’ve treated come to me insisting that their problem is that they “don’t sleep.” They never fall asleep, or they wake up and cannot get back to sleep. Anyone who says this to me is actually suffering, at least in part, from a more fundamental problem: They are sleeping; they just don’t perceive their sleep effectively. In other words, their assertion of not sleeping is just plain wrong. The medical fact is, we all sleep. It’s a primary drive. The body insists on it. So the first thing I need to tell you if you are one of those people who “never sleep” is this: You need to
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