Beating Insomnia

Life is stressful and depressing for a person who learns through childhood to be helpless.

Failure is punished. If people succeed, we simply increase our demands upon them until they fail.

isn’t necessary anyway, as research on child-rearing shows that being ‘good enough’ as a parent is better for your kids than being perfect.

Are you resentful or angry much of the time?

Z-drugs also don’t have much of an anti-anxiety effect and so don’t promote psychological dependence as powerfully as the benzodiazepines. I know this lack of tranquillizing effect from personal experience. When I first took a zopiclone tablet on the night flight back from Atlanta to London, it didn’t seem to be working. After about half an hour I

Having a life in which you eat, work, exercise, socialize, study, sleep or rest at different and unpredictable times each day makes it difficult for your body to get into a rhythm compatible with good sleep.

Play to your strengths, not to your limitations.

letting people sometimes be disappointed with you without trying to fix it are crucial steps on the path to overcoming stress.

accept this, you’ll find that from time to time life throws you a bouquet which you haven’t earned. It cuts both ways.