Roughly 10% of adults worldwide meet the full diagnostic criteria for chronic insomnia, yet most people suffering through exhausting nights have no idea they’re dealing with a specific, treatable condition. You might think you’re just a bad sleeper, cursed with a restless brain. But chronic insomnia follows predictable patterns, has identifiable causes, and responds to…
Decades of sleep research have produced at least three competing ways to classify insomnia, and none of them perfectly overlap. You can sort your sleeplessness by how long it’s lasted, by what caused it, or by which part of the night falls apart first. Each framework answers a different question, and knowing which types of…
You’ve been awake for three hours now, and the pattern is starting to feel familiar. Maybe you can’t fall asleep in the first place, or you wake up at 2 AM like clockwork, or your eyes snap open at 4:30 AM and refuse to close again. These aren’t just random variations of the same problem—they’re…