Word: insomnia
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...more things change, the more they are the same. Even up here, my health is precarious: as I used to write you in clinical detail during my years of childhood, adolescence and maturity, I suffer from hay fever, chills, diseases of the urinary tract and bowels, insomnia and aches of the joints. Perhaps disease is what guards my moral sense. As I wrote in Remembrance of Things Past, "Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; we obey pain...
...next room, also hooked up to a variety of monitors and a recording device, is a 30-year old woman who suspects that she has insomnia. She arrived at about 9 p.m. the usual hour for patients to enter the lab for overnight stays, and her vital signs will be recorded until 6 a.m. as well. She is an outpatient, in the clinic just for the night, and unlike the sleep apnea patient, she requires no supervision from the lab's two-man team...
...does Stakes "treat appropriately?" Some disorders, such as insomnia, can be treated in the office. Other patients responded to antidepressant drugs, and some to simple adjustments in the sleep schedule. Still others only need reassurance that their sleep patterns are, in fact, normal. "We get patients coming in thinking they're not getting enough sleep when their sleep architecture looks great." Stakes remarks, referring to the structure of the printouts...
...first batch of entries, excerpted in the London Sunday Times this week, were skimpy but they nonetheless made fascinating reading. Hitler's scribblings ranged from the commonplace ("Suffering more and more from insomnia; indigestion getting even worse," from April 1938) to the conspiratorial (on Heinrich Himmler, head of the Gestapo: "I shall show this deceitful small animal breeder, this unfathomable little penny pincher with his lust for power, what I am really like," from Nov. 11, 1939).* At another point, the diarist related how Storm Trooper Chief Ernest Roehm "lied to me and deceived me," and then displayed...
Humes argued that today diseases of this type, including both the physiological symptoms associated with chronic neuromuscular tension (such as headache, backache, insomnia, constipation, asthma, and so on), and the cluster of cognitive and emotional distortions which come under the general heading of anxiety-neurosis, are so widespread that the medical profession should stipulate the existence of an epidemic. He urged the direction of research attention to the use of cannabis as a specific remedy...