1. 48% of Americans experience occasional insomnia.
2. More than 1 out of every 5 experience sleeplessness every night. That’s 60 million people!
3. Approximately 4% of Americans take some form of prescription medication to help them sleep.
4. More than 50% of all insomnia cases stem from problems with anxiety, depression and/or stress.
5. A Gallup poll revealed that of the Americans surveyed, 1 out of every 3 admitted to falling asleep while driving.
6. Divorced, widowed and separated persons are more likely to be dealing with insomnia.
7. 100,000 automobile accidents each year in the United States are directly related to sleep deprivation. This includes more than 1,500 deaths and 40,000 injuries yearly.
Why Olivia wrote this book?
For years she tried to find some help for my husband’s sleep disorders.
Her husband, Mark, had trouble sleeping since he was a kid. When he got married, things came to a head because suddenly he had someone else in bed with him to see what was happening, who also experienced his sleep difficulties.
He would toss and turn night after night.
Some mornings he would wake up with the bedding wrapped around his neck!
He turned and thrashed in bed. He didn’t seem to notice that he was kicking his wife, or pushing me around in the bed.
In the morning when Olivia asked him if he’d had a bad dream and what was the deal? He would look at me blankly and say, “I what?”
When we went to bed at night he had a tough time even getting to sleep.
His mind would race, and he would begin thinking of all kinds of things — tomorrow’s work, some interesting idea he had, money, and who knows what all — images would just streak through his mind.
Olivia and Mark went to doctor after doctor (some listened and some scoffed), psychiatrist, psychologist, therapist, nutritionist, herbalist, massage therapist, chiropractor, and anyone else we could think of who might be able to help.
What they found was that very few physicians and professionals agree!
Naps were good, they were bad.
Sleeping pills were the answer, they were the cause.
One doctor sent Mark to a psychiatrist who prescribed antidepressants for depression, another decided that he needed talk therapy to “explore trauma from his childhood.”
The Sleep Disorder Clinic was happy to have Mark sleep overnight to observe his slumber problems, but when they determined that he didn’t snore or have sleep apnea (and so they couldn’t sell us a CPAP device), they lost interest in our problems.
The one benefit to this procession of physicians and professionals was finally to give a title to one of the conditions my husband suffered from.
Mark was diagnosed with Periodic Limb Movement Disorder (PLMD) and Sleep Onset Insomnia.
The good news was that they knew what to call it!
The bad news is that they realized that we were on our own.
Which ended up being the best thing that could have happened — because Olivia and Mark chose to take control of our medical care.
They decided that if they were going to make a difference in our lives, they would have to make it!
So, Olivia began to research and research and research.
She found tons of information — but so much of it was contradictory!
Doctors and other professionals seemed confusing and complicated — and to imply that the average person isn’t smart enough to understand.
Olivia figured she were just as smart as the next person, so she kept on trying to find an answer that would work.
She had to learn what proper sleep was, how much was the right amount, and to find ways to get it!
Finally A Good Nights Sleep! is the result of 17 years of married life dealing with and learning about sleep, insomnia, and how to get a good night’s rest.
It’s written so that the average person can understand — in a book that we would have liked to find when we began our “Sleep Journey” 17 years ago.
That’s why this was written, to solve a real problem
Targeted Age Group:: 25-80
How Did You Come up With Your Characters?
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Book Sample
Here’s another area where you have to decide for yourself.
When my husband has a bad night, he may or may not decide to take a nap. It usually depends on what the day demands, but if he can, he’ll take a short nap.
The experts disagree on whether you should or should not take a nap —
Most feel that you’ll sabotage your night’s sleep if you take a nap during the day.
That would depend, though, on the length of the nap, and just how much you need it!
One study has determined that 42 minutes is the optimum length of a nap. Of course, if you haven’t been able to sleep for days, this obviously would not be enough!
It’s interesting that many cultures have time set aside for naps in the afternoon. In South America and some places in Europe, the afternoon siesta is a national custom and all work stops for those few hours.
Author Bio:
Olivia figured she were just as smart as the next person, so she kept on trying to find an answer that would work.
She had to learn what proper sleep was, how much was the right amount, and to find ways to get it!
Finally A Good Nights Sleep! is the result of 17 years of married life dealing with and learning about sleep, insomnia, and how to get a good night’s rest.
It’s written so that the average person can understand — in a book that we would have liked to find when we began our “Sleep Journey” 17 years ago.
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