Because these "treatments" do not pay attention to the main thing -
To defeat ANY disease, you have to find and eliminate its CAUSES. This is a medical law.
And the causes of insomnia are
Unfortunately, people don't understand sleep very well. They don't know what affects falling asleep. They don't understand at all that falling asleep is a complex process that begins 2 hours before bedtime.
Insomnia occurs when you break the fundamental laws of sleep. But you don't even know about them.
And insomnia is like being overweight. You get fat when you are unconscious about food and physical activity. You yourself provoke and increase your insomnia every night and evening.
Doctor, I eat breakfast and dinner at McDonald's and then I also eat ice cream at night. Why can't I lose weight?". Strange question, right?
«But sleep doctors hear roughly the same thing everytime.
People spend the evening any way they want. They can put themselves under severe stress and then go to bed and surprise: why won't sleep come?!
Almost no one observes sleep hygiene. And they don't pay attention even to the most dangerous enemies of sleep. This topic is sensitive to us. So many people have had insomnia for years and don't know that they are killing their sleep.
Incorrect Mental Statements About Sleep
Often people convince themselves that they won't sleep. They keep repeating that they're not going to make it again today. And the brain thinks this is a command.
Others want to sleep too much. And they push themselves to sleep. And sleep is fragile, and if you push, sleep doesn't come.
Insomniacs have many mental statements that destroy sleep and provoke insomnia. We don't even know we have them. And we don't sleep because of them.
Your bed is a traitor. It is something that significantly fuels your insomnia. Your bed is poisoned.
When insomnia lasts longer than a few months, your brain gets used to lying in bed without sleep. And starts to think it's the norm now.
You don't even understand why you can't sleep anymore. And in fact, your bed, bedroom, and evening have become a rite of passage in preparation for insomnia.
These are the causes of your insomnia.
And the good news is that medicine knows how to fight these causes
And you don't need pills for that. You don't even need bedtime stories
*Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia or CBT-i to be precise
If you are currently taking sleeping pills, Sleep Therapy will teach you how to fall asleep without them. And you can slowly go off the pills.