Insomnia - A Modern World Epidemic

Who would have guessed that a conspiracy exists to keep us all awake at night?

clipped from psychotherapynetworker.com Sleepless in America Little is known about the mechanisms, causes, clinical course, co-morbidities, and consequences of chronic insomnia. The percentage of the population who need less than five hours of sleep per night, rounded to a whole number, is zero. In fact, thanks to technology, particularly the Internet, there's nothing you can do during the day that you can't do at night. clipped from psychotherapynetworker.com Insomnia is exactly what the movers and shakers of our society want for us. The buzz-term used by advertisers and corporate honchos for the monetary windfall of our 24/7 lifestyle is the "attention economy," and there's a perceived need to increase it, which means finding ever-growing numbers of people (consumers) awake and aware of the proliferating Internet-mediated information sources (the "product") popping up on their screens, and ultimately buying something, somewhere, from someone. clipped from psychotherapynetworker.com In our own culture, there's an eerie echo of this insatiable striving to rise above our need for sleep and become powerhouses.