Past inability to sleep caused by excessive worry, change in sleep patterns or other factors
| Present anxiety That inabilty to sleep will occur again. Concerns about future consequences of lack of sleep.
| Results in 'trying' to sleep or get back to sleep, while worrying that you won't,
which maintains a vicious cycle
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Because the above pattern is kept going by anxiety about past, present and future sleep, the most direct answer to dealing with it is removing that anxiety. The pattern then simply stops and you get a good night of sleep. This is easily achieved with the methods I use.