“So you have Sleep Stage One, Two, and then Three/Four. One is a little bit lighter stage of the quiet, non-REM sleep and then Three/Four is really deep, deep sleep. And what you want is, you actually want a number of - you want to go through all of these stages throughout the night.” WantLittlesTwoNightThreeBitsSleepNumbersFourStageQuietLittle BitWhat You WantLightersReally DeepDeep Sleep Author:Shelby Harris
“There are some patients who just have insomnia and they've had it since they were a kid and we don't quite know why. So when we look at the cause, we definitely want to treat whatever else is going on, but insomnia often because it becomes its own diagnosis and that requires its own treatment.” KnowsWantLooksKidsCausesTreatsPatientTreatmentInsomniaDiagnosis Author:Shelby Harris
“So if somebody has chronic pain, we want to manage the pain, but we still want to treat the insomnia separately. So what we'll tend to do in our sleep lab is we'll do a thorough evaluation and we usually have myself, who is a Psychologist and a Sleep Behavioral Sleep Specialist, I treat the patients first.” IfsWantFirstsStillsPainSleepTreatsPatientManageInsomniaPsychologistThoroughLabsSpecialistsEvaluationChronic Pain Author:Shelby Harris
“So someone who is a child usually goes to bed about 8:00 or 9:00 at night, but then when they have a circadian rhythm shift, it shifts later. And this is natural. And they start to go to bed at 11:00, 12:00, 1:00 and they want to sleep later. So we see this a lot in teens.” WantChildrenNightNaturalSleepBedRhythmTeensWant To SleepCircadian Rhythm Author:Shelby Harris
“So a lot of people who work rotating shifts and they work at night, their bodies are set to want to be awake during the day and sleep at night. So there are some people who have a lot of trouble adjusting their rhythms and they have trouble working the night shift, they're sleepy, they're drowsy driving home.” PeopleWantHomeBodyNightSleepTroubleDrivingRhythmAwakeSleepyAdjustingDrowsyNight ShiftRotatingDriving Home Author:Shelby Harris
“If you're going somewhere East from here, generally what you want to do is you want to try to have your bed time earlier and earlier so what we'll do is I'll have someone adjust for a week or two by going to be 15 minutes earlier and getting up 15 minutes earlier every night. So that can be a really simple thing.” IfsWantTryingTwoNightSimpleWeekMinutesBedEastWhat You WantEvery NightSimple ThingsBed Time Author:Shelby Harris
“Night terrors are very different from nightmares. A lot of people will think they're the same, but they're really not. Night terrors - you want to look at the time of night when you're having the problem. Night Terrors happen in deep sleep. Nightmares tend to happen in a lighter REM sleep.” PeopleThinkingWantLooksDifferentProblemHappensNightSleepTerrorNightmareLightersDeep SleepNight Terrors Author:Shelby Harris
