Word: insomnia
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Karen said she was plagued by insomnia, insecurity, and acute self consciousness, which made it difficult for her to deal with male authority figures...
Israeli scientists have found that giving elderly insomniacs melatonin -- a hormone produced in the human pineal gland, which regulates sleep cycles -- dramatically improves their chances of getting to sleep. It also seems to work for people whose insomnia is caused by Alzheimer's disease and other brain disorders...
...steer clear of alternative therapies already being studied by other NIH departments, including the use of transcendental meditation for cardiovascular disease and acupuncture for substance abuse. "We may look at touch therapy, which is said to make patients better quicker," he says. "Or homeopathy, to relieve allergies, bronchitis or insomnia." He is also intrigued by wood ear, a tree fungus used in making moo shu pork, which is supposed to be a great blood thinner...
...Sheehy's The Silent Passage, menopausal women are incapacitated or at least severely derailed by insomnia, loss of libido, hot flashes and depression. At one point Sheehy pauses to ask, "Are we getting all worked up over something that is, in fact, quite normal and has been experienced since time immemorial?" Well, yes -- Japanese women, for example, don't even have a word for "hot flash" -- but never mind. Menopause is a swamp of pathology, in Sheehy's view, curable with a positive attitude and, in appropriate cases, a lifetime supply of Premarin...
Some sleeping pills like halcion have been known to cause periods of amnesia, and all sleeping pills lose their effectiveness after a few weeks. At that point they can, ironically, even begin to cause drug-induced insomnia...