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#154 - Sleep and the Threat of Danger: I Won’t Do You No Harm

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Content provided by Chris Winter, MD, Chris Winter, and MD. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Chris Winter, MD, Chris Winter, and MD or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://ppacc.player.fm/legal.

One of the biggest obstacles in insomnia treatment is the perceived threat of physical harm related to the sleep difficulty. It's a major cog in the insomnia-fear-arousal cycle. In this episode we will:

  • Utilize two case studies to illustrate the disruption that fear of harm causes with insomnia recovery
  • Discuss insomnia is a disorder of distress, not danger
  • Talk about the lack of any evidence that acute sleep loss causes medical harm
  • Challenge the catastrophizing that characterizes insomnia
  • Contrast behavioral and cognitive therapies over medical therapies

Produced by: Maeve Winter
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Thanks for listening and sleep well!

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Manage episode 486324465 series 3365942
Content provided by Chris Winter, MD, Chris Winter, and MD. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Chris Winter, MD, Chris Winter, and MD or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://ppacc.player.fm/legal.

One of the biggest obstacles in insomnia treatment is the perceived threat of physical harm related to the sleep difficulty. It's a major cog in the insomnia-fear-arousal cycle. In this episode we will:

  • Utilize two case studies to illustrate the disruption that fear of harm causes with insomnia recovery
  • Discuss insomnia is a disorder of distress, not danger
  • Talk about the lack of any evidence that acute sleep loss causes medical harm
  • Challenge the catastrophizing that characterizes insomnia
  • Contrast behavioral and cognitive therapies over medical therapies

Produced by: Maeve Winter
More

Thanks for listening and sleep well!

  continue reading

156 episodes

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