Preventing Chronic Insomnia
Many of us may remember a time we’ve had difficulty getting to sleep – or perhaps woken up at a terrible hour tossing and turning, wondering why the night suddenly seems so long. What techniques might prevent such one-off or short-term occurrences from developing into a regular longer-term pattern? And what makes us susceptible to insomnia in the first place? In the lead up to World Sleep Day, The Daily’s Willy Russo was joined by Dr Moira Junge, a health psychologist with the Sleep Health Foundation, to unravel a few myths around insomnia and explore what healthy sleep practices look like.
