Why Insomnia Is Bad for Your Health - Gayle Greene

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/03/15/Gayle_Greene_Discusses_Insomniac

"Insomniac" author Gayle Greene discusses the many negative mental and physiological effects of sleep deprivation.

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Gayle Greene discusses her book Insomniac.

Part memoir, part scientific reportage and analysis, a book for all of us who wish to know more about sleep, the condition which consumes one third of our lives. Greene - a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the patient representative on the board of the American Insomnia Association - addresses head on the neglect of this disorder that affects millions.

Herself an insomniac, she weaves together the story of her personal journey through a lifetime of sleepless nights; the experiences of other insomniacs; an in-depth study of sleep science and current research; and a detailed examination of what can be done to help those afflicted. You might call her work, as she notes, "a field guide to insomnia".

Billy Collins writes, "The good news is that Greene's book is all you ever need to read on the subject." Green is a professor of literature and women's studies at Scripps College - Cody's Books

Gayle Green has published dozens of articles in scholarly journals such as Signs, Contemporary Literature, and Renaissance Drama, many of which have been reprinted in anthologies (e.g., Blackwell¹s Shakespeare: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory, 1945-2000,2004). She's also published in more popular venues such as Ms Magazine, The Nation, The Women's Review of Books, and In These Times.
She's a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, a professional medical society for researchers and clinicians, and a board member and the patient representative of the American Insomnia Association, an organization within the American Academic of Sleep Medicine.

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[jesuschrustpizza]

Consumerism and ignorism is destroying America from within.

[crustychi666]

mee too its 4 in the morning and i cant fucking sleep ever. until like 10 in the morning then i sleep till like 7 and the process repeats

[zestydude87]

140 AM right now and i might be able to sleep by say 530AM if im lucky. I do alot of research on various things from the time my family goest to bed around 10PM until about 4AM because its quiet and i can study un interrupted.

[MsSanetta]

@mstewey

same here...6 years i have gone through this shit, sometimes im so tired from not fallin to sleep, i start to cry thinkin about suicide, i will never kill myself, but damn! so last nite i took 2 10mg melotonin w/ 2 benadryls and i think i slept.

& it's happening to more ppl i know, even fucken kids!

how the fuck can an 6 month old be awake for days at a time, well i saw it, & it fucked me up!

its these god damn CHEM-TRAILS, i think!

mf's are murderin my black ass

[79Bek]

:) huh.

[tatu928native]

it sucks i cant sleep when i want to. i stopped sleeping in until 5-6PM though. i now wake up at 1PM. But i don't sleep til like 4-7AM.

[NoRotorNoMotor114]

@jesuschrustpizza Tyler Durden

[Tragedy1191]

@jesuschrustpizza amen to that

[crustychi666]

haha, but when you have pot, you can actually sleep. I cant sleep cuz i dont have pot

[crustychi666]

dude, same here its fucking 430 and i can only seem to sleep durring the daytime

[Patrick1844]

I can never sleep! I always stay up all night.