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| Non-herbal Ways to Deal with Insomnia |
| Occasional or Infrequent Insomnia |
| The best way to deal with one or two bad nights of sleep is to go to bed early the very next evening. Never make excuses for why you need to stay up late more than one or two nights in a row. Manage your schedule so you get your work done during the day, and don't treat your body like you can deprive it of sleep whenever you want. |
| Going to bed early is better for your body than taking a daytime nap. Napping during the day can make you less tiredand less able to sleepat night. This can further interfere with resuming your normal sleep-wake cycle. |
| Short-term Insomnia (1 to 3 Weeks) |
| Longer periods of insomnia, lasting one to three weeks, are often brought on by stressful life events. As already pointed out, repeated loss of sleep leads to poor daytime function, increased irritability, further decreasing ability to cope with stress, which in turn leads to more worry, anger and frustration, which additionally compromises sleep. |
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