Dr. Sylvie Royant-Parola explains the right technique to improve the quality of his sleep when you make insomnia.
For insomniacs, evening arrival is not a source of serenity or appeasement. On the contrary, she marks the return of the concern not to be able to fall asleep, to wake up several times at night and to no longer be able to sleep after 4 am. Over time, people who suffer from insomnia set up strategies in order to accumulate a maximum of hours of sleep in a row “These strategies are completely upside down what to do” warns the French doctor specialist in sleep, Sylvie Royant-Parola.
Invited in the show “Expert” by Youtubeur Cyrus North, she explains that you should not try to catch up sleeping by deciding for example to sleep earlier to sleep faster and longer or by staying in bed in the morning. All of this only makes the problem worse. Instead, the doctor proposes to test a safe method to reorganize sleep and find satisfactory and restorative nights.
“If you have sleeping problems or awakenings in the night that make you want to sleep more, you have to take a time slot of 6-7 hours for 3 weeks and choose a sleep window. It can be from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. or midnight at 6 a.m. which will be continuous and of good quality. “
In parallel to this method, it is important to prepare the bedtime well. This involves in particular by stopping screens at least an hour before getting into bed and ouster of activities that are too engaging in the evening. As for the possible medication, melatonin type, to sleep, Dr. Royant-Parola is clear: “Forget the drugs, you have to be able to sleep with nothing. Melatonin can be interesting in the event of a jetlag to resynchronize the organism but in insomnia, it has no interest. As for other drugs, it is really in case of an emergency, large difficks, depression to pass caps but insomnia must be treated without drugs.”
