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...There are so many casualties among people who grow up as actors," says Denise Di Novi, who produced Little Women (as well as Edward Scissorhands and another signature Ryder film, Heathers). "Winona is definitely not a casualty." She did struggle with a prescription drug that she took to relieve insomnia without knowing it was addictive. Says Ryder: "The doctor literally said, 'You can eat them like candy.' When I realized I needed them, I stopped taking them...
...research in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine suggests that some blind people have a way of sensing light, even though they cannot see it. The discovery may yield clues on how the brain keeps time. Many blind people suffer from insomnia; unable to sense light, their bodies fall behind real time by about a half hour each day. Yet a third of the 1 million Americans who are completely blind do not experience the problem. Dr. Charles Czeisler, a member of the team that conducted the research at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, speculates that removing...
...different drugs that older people generally should not be taking at all. According to a study of 6,000 people published in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, 23% of Americans ages 65 and over are using medications that are notorious for triggering insomnia, fainting spells or even amnesia among the elderly. Says Dr. David Himmelstein, a physician at Cambridge Hospital in Massachusetts and one of the study's co-authors: "It's a sad commentary on the prescribing practices of many doctors in this country...
...painful sincerity unites those who have dredged up memories of UFO abductions. Many suffer from insomnia and shy away from telling anyone what they believe may have happened for fear of being perceived as crazy. "Virtually all abductees are opposed to the idea that these things really happen," explains Budd Hopkins, author of two books about contact with aliens. "They don't want these things to be real. There is no pleasure in this experience...
...depression is characterized primarily by unusual sleep patterns (extremely heavy and lethargic sleep, far less common than the usual insomnia most other patients suffer), fatigue, mental misery even in the midst of usually satisfying activities and often what the experts term `anhedonia' (utter lack of pleasure on a prolonged basis). This can greatly burden work and social life. It feels like a case of `mononucleosis' that never ends (I have twice had `mono' and the similarities are striking). Hardly anyone else has ever been aware of my inner mental states, and even renowned professionals have not been able to detect...