Word: insomnia
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...type who thrives on insomnia. In fact, I need at least 10 hours of sleep each night to be the charming, intelligent, thoughtful boy my mother loves. Over the last month, I've been irritable, grouchy, insensitive and mean. I've been ostracized by my friends in dining halls and spurned in the classroom. I did get punched by three final clubs, however...
...other powerful drugs. Since 1987, parents around the country have filed more than a dozen Ritalin-related lawsuits against doctors, teachers and school districts. In one such suit, a Washington woman claimed that the drug led her six-year-old son to attempt suicide. Complaints about depression, listlessness and insomnia in medicated % children are common. Valerie Jesson, of Derry, N.H., says her son Casey, 10, became a zombie while on Ritalin: "It knocked him into next week. His eyes would glaze, and he would just sit staring." Jesson is currently locked in a legal battle with New Hampshire's department...
Many physicians defend the use of Ritalin, citing studies indicating that the drug is generally safe and is effective in about 80% of cases of hyperactive children. Adverse effects are usually limited to temporary appetite loss and insomnia. "Ritalin is not a panacea," says researcher Howard Abikoff of the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, "but without medication we'd be up against the wall...
...forget One Hundred Years of Solitude, and thank goodness for that. Instead, Garcia Marquez, 60, * offers a spacious mirror image of the novel that made him famous. This time out, surface events largely conform to the dictates of plausibility. No one ascends bodily into heaven; the famous plague of insomnia that swept through Solitude here becomes literal, recurrent ravages of cholera morbus. The bizarre and outlandish are relegated to the domain of private lives, to characters who must construct for themselves elaborate fictions to follow in order to stand the shocks and tedium of being alive...
...three to six hours a night, perhaps with a nap during the day, is typically all that is necessary. The quality of sleep changes, becoming lighter and more fitful. Shorter, restless nights lead many who recall the easy slumber of youth to complain of insomnia. As a result, half of elderly women and one-quarter of elderly men take largely unneeded sleeping pills...