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Every since I read Matthew Walker’s “Why We Sleep” I have become increasingly interested in improving my sleep. I never had a condition or diagnose per se, although my dad has quite serious sleep apnea.
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Welcome to the forum.
Unfortunately, Matthew Walker’s book is one of the worst books written about sleep, particularly for those with insomnia. It is full of scare mongering and encourages people who may be sleeping just fine to work on sleeping more. This can actually trigger insomnia.
In fact, I have worked with clients who had no problem with sleep until they read this book and then worried about their sleep and tried to get more sleep than they needed.
This worry and attempt to control sleep made their sleep worse and led to chronic insomnia.
I have nothing good to say about this book and highly recommend everyone avoid it. In my opinion, it is doing significantly more harm than good.
If you currently sleep well and feel fine during the day, I would encourage you not to try to control sleep, not to try to get more sleep, and not to interfere with sleep since doing so can easily lead to sleep becoming worse rather than better. I have seen this happen and seen the negative impact it had on others and I do not want this to happen to you, too.
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