Member-only story
How to manage stress-related insomnia
What can you do when stress can’t make you sleep?
Stress is one of the most widespread diseases of our time. We can say that, together with depression, it’s one of the worst conditions that western culture has created for the people.
One of the most horrible effects of stress is insomnia. In this article, I’ll show my experience and some tips to win this invisible enemy.
What is (not) stress?
Stress is not being tired. Stress is not the need of taking some days of break. Stress is not wishing to make a trip. Stress is your body and mind that no longer can take it. It’s like a virus. It’s inside your brain and body and it lies there inactive before exploding.
The human brain is a wonderful machine and tries to adapt to stressful situations as much as it can. Sometimes it succeeds, sometimes not. The worst thing is that you can’t figure out that stress is eating your brain because stress itself alters the ability of your brain to detect it. That’s why stress shows its symptoms with a delay of a few days. You must reach the breaking point to figure out you have lost…