LetSleepHappen Articles

With the best will in the world aviation organisations can structure rosters to safeguard employees' opportunity to sleep. But this can't of itself prevent insomnia & fatigue affecting employees.

Sleep deprivation is ability to sleep but not enough opportunity to sleep. Insomnia is enough opportunity to sleep but seemingly lost ability to sleep.

LetSleepHappen submitted sleep medication accidental overdose data to the Australian Federal Sleep Health Awareness Inquiry on 11/2/19. Investigating the psychology of accidental overdose is crucial given the hundreds of Australians unknowingly combining lethal levels of prescription sedatives every year, in a bid to sleep and quell anxiety or chronic pain.

Effective CBT insomnia help prevents mental health issues in athletes, just like everyone else. Sleep meds, not so much.

How many of us know this experience? You’re awake at 3am, breathing through your mouth, your nose completely blocked. The feeling of suffocation rising, with shortness of breath, dry mouth and throat, and headachy feeling behind the eyes. You turn from one side to the other to see if one side of your nose can get some air in. The attention becomes helplessly focused on the rising sensations of suffocation, and with this, rising feelings of panic. No chance of sleep now....