Getting used to continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) isn't easy; many give up because of suffocation sensations & panic. We discuss desensitisation strategies, and how you've probably intuitively desensitised to aversive sensations in the past without thinking much about it.
Dr David Lim and Rosemary Clancy on navigating the challenges of co-occurring insomnia and Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (COMISA)
Discussion ranging from Sleep-Wake State Discrepancy (Paradoxical Insomnia) to COMISA and CPAP therapy refusal, and why Women's Sleep Apnea is so often overlooked
A Sleep psychologist navigates CPAP & finally understands co-occurring OSA & Insomnia
The THIM device can re-train your brain to fall asleep faster in as little as 10 hours. The
seeming paradox? It's via sleep deprivation.
Podcast with Rose Clancy and Dr Ron Ehrlich, of Unstress holistic health website, and "A Life Less Stressed" author.
Nighttime multiple toilet trips and disrupted sleep Podcast with HealthEd's GP and Medical Educator Dr David Lim
Insomnia CBT podcast with GP & Medical Educator Dr David Lim
Concise, readable, and packed with sleep health information, thanks Rachel Choy of Yahoo Lifestyle for our in-depth interview: read how trying for a perfect sleep environment can surprisingly create more sleep anxiety!
The way out of insomnia may surprise you..
Sydney GP Dr Kevin Cheng interviews sleep psychologist Rose Clancy in this Prevention Hacks podcast on sleep health.
Read up on how we can train ourselves to sleep better around noise and light, in Seraphina Seow's Domain interview with Rose Clancy of LetSleepHappen
Read up on just how much of an effect the isolation period can have on our sleep and health, with Max Langridge at D'Marge interviewing LetSleepHappen's director Rose Clancy
Watch this video of the media event at World Sleep Day 2020 in Malaysia, where we discuss sleep health and accidental overdose on sleep medications.
The inadvertent trigger for a powerful reward schedule that turns careful sleep medication use into longterm insomnia.
The night and day preoccupation with poor sleep and tiredness, and trying to resolve it, sets up a frustrating struggle that is the awful truth of insomnia: the harder you try to make sleep work, the worse it gets.
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....
For chronic, conditioned insomnia, doing Time in Bed Restriction in summer is easier than waiting until winter.
Helping insomniacs overcome the fear of falling asleep with Leon Lack's brutal but amazing retraining program
Now that Olympic athletes' use of sleep prescription “hypnotic” medications benzodiazepines (such as Valium, Ativan, Xanax, Mogadon) and “Z-drugs” (Stilnox and Imovane) has been curtailed, let’s look at why this might cause athletes disquiet.