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Home News Fitness (Image credit: Getty) Insomniacs the world over know what it\u2019s like not to be able to sleep. Whether that\u2019s the inability to fall asleep easily or to stay asleep, the result is the same: sleepless nights, insomnia anxiety, followed by exhausting days.\u00a0I was a chronic insomniac for decades, and would lie awake for hours and hours, my mind whirring with thoughts. The more tired I became, the more wired and engaged my mind became, ironically.\u00a0And then insomnia anxiety would take hold \u2013 the worry that I wouldn\u2019t be able to get to sleep but had to be up for work first thing, which put me in a state of fight or flight, with all the sleep-sabotaging hormones that come with that, when I needed to be in a state of rest and digest. A predictable, infuriating waste of time, at the very least, but also a stressful routine that was destabilising at times.How to use the Military Sleep Method to fall asleep fasterNutritionist reveals the foods that help you sleep well and what to avoidRunning on emptyOur nights feed into our days and a lack of quality sleep impacts everything about our waking hours: how much energy we have, our health, cognitive function, moods, resilience, happiness, productivity\u2026.\u00a0My chronic insomnia left me feeling exhausted come morning, with recurring burn-out days and my emotions were far from evenPre-kids I was more able to work around this, slipping into social jet lag, with long weekend lie-ins to make up for… Click below to read the full story from TechRadar
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