New breakthrough: Cognitive behavioral therapy improves insomnia
Insomnia is a common sleep disorder that brings huge troubles to patients\' lives. In recent years, psychologists and doctors have made an important breakthrough in the treatment of insomnia - cognitive behavioral therapy (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia, CBT-I). This method effectively improves sleep quality in many aspects, including not only falling asleep but also waking up at night and waking up early, by adjusting individual thoughts, emotions and behavioral patterns.
Relieving anxiety and stress:
CBT-I focuses on face-to-face assessment of patients during diagnosis and treatment, and pays special attention to the role of related factors such as anxiety and stress in insomnia. effect. By establishing a safe and comfortable environment, counselors conduct detailed and professional interviews to understand the patient\'s environment, relationships, and responses to their sleep problems before treatment begins. This helps identify the presence of other mental health issues and tailor interventions to provide patients with comprehensive treatment.
Repair sleep concepts:
CBT-I helps insomnia patients establish correct sleep knowledge and attitudes by changing their misconceptions and expectations about sleep. Many insomniacs focus too much on their ability to fall asleep and form obsessive thinking patterns, making it more difficult to fall asleep. The counselor will teach the patient how to develop good bedtime habits and relaxation techniques, and shift attention to other activities that can promote sleep, such as reading, listening to music, etc. This can reduce the uneasiness caused by excessive worries about the time and quality of falling asleep, and improve their understanding that it is normal to wake up slightly while resting in bed and there is no need to be overly nervous.
Deduction of behavioral therapy:
CBT-I also includes behavioral methods to improve patients\' maladaptive behaviors in bed. For example, in the medical field, we always use \"binding\" to describe the effects of drugs. No one has seen where a drug crosses the blood-brain barrier and goes to produce an effect. Likewise, the effects of CBT-I were associated with non-sleeping activities before and after waking up and in bed. For example, during treatment, patients are told to go to bed only when they feel drowsy and to leave the bed if they have trouble falling asleep, wake up for long periods of time during the night, or have a busy brain. This series of behavioral control techniques can help develop good conditioned reflexes related to the bedtime environment.
Long-term effects:
Although CBT-I cannot immediately solve all insomnia problems, it is more sustainable and safer than drug treatment. Actually, about 70% to 80% of patients who receive CBT-I are able to significantly improve their sleep quality and maintain long-term effects. The “cognitive” aspect makes this approach superior to other purely physiological interventions, as it improves people’s awareness of their situation by adjusting their thinking patterns.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT-I) is a psychological intervention method for insomnia. It improves sleep concepts, adjusts behavioral habits, and relieves related anxiety and stress. The patient\'s sleep problems. This treatment method not only has long-term effects, but also avoids the dependence and side effects that may be caused by drug treatment. As more and more people realize the important role that psychological factors play in insomnia, CBT-I will become the most effective, safe and sustainable method that can be widely used in the field of insomnia treatment in the future.
