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Be Thankful If They Just Snore

Posted by michael on from the falling-falling-falling-splat dept.

The NYT is running has a lengthy piece in their weekend supplement about sleep disorders. Besides a certain amount of humor value, the article covers sleep terrors and sleepwalking and even weirder disorders.

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  1. Faithless by Library+Spoff · · Score: 5, Insightful

    having had some problems sleeping recently due to stress I can tell you it ain't funny...

    can't sleep cause you're stressed...
    this stresses you...
    cant sleep cause you're stressed...

    not much fun..

    and *everyones* got a cure:

    "tried lettuce sandwiches"
    "tried a piriton" etc etc.

    thankfully i'm sleeping again, but I don't envy anyone who has this all the time.

    --
    Acid House saves Souls
    1. Re:Faithless by KliX · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I agree.

      I am a manic depressive, and on and off [who knows why] I get terrible problems sleeping - I end up either getting a tiny amount of sleep [1 or 2 hours] or no sleep at all [I know some people are happy with tiny amounts of sleep, but I feel shite with anything less than 7 or 8 hours depending on how hard I'm working].

      Sleep is essencial. We may not really understand it, but I'd never want *anyone* to be without it.

      Fox.