The Sleep Solution
by W. Chris Winter
A sleep physician's irreverent guide: the difference between sleepiness and fatigue, why insomnia is often an anxiety about sleep rather than an inability, how to use sleep restriction, and what actually works. It is reassuring to anxious poor sleepers and more clinically practical than Why We Sleep.
Read it if…
you lie awake worrying about not sleeping, which keeps you awake.
Skip it if…
you sleep fine and want the science; see Walker.
Three things you will actually use
- Fatigue is not sleepiness; diagnose which you have.
- Anchor wake time, not bedtime.
- Stop fearing bad nights; the fear is the problem.
Do this first
Fix your wake time for two weeks and get out of bed if you are awake more than twenty minutes.
Our verdict
Practical and reassuring; the clinician's sleep book.
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