Insomnia Treatment in San Diego
Everyone has trouble sleeping every once in a while. But for people with insomnia disorder, sleep problems happen at least three nights each week for at least 12 weeks.
Insomnia, as a symptom, syndrome, or disease, has severe social and professional consequences, affecting daily activities and rendering individuals incapable of performing their tasks and personal relationships. It, therefore, generates a high cost for society. Feeling tired or sleepy can also increase your risk of having a car accident or injuring yourself. Insomnia disorder may also increase the risk for strokes.
Because of its intricate relationship with wellbeing during the withdrawal process, La Jolla Recovery wants you to experience insomnia treatment as an integrative approach to rehabilitation in San Diego, California.
Who Experiences Insomnia
Statistics on Insomnia
Approximately 17% of people experience insomnia at any one time, while about 36% will have mild insomnia at times during their lives. The condition seems to be chronic for 10% of adults.
Insomniacs feel unrested in the morning, getting worse in response to life stresses or anxieties. Because just about everyone has trouble falling asleep from time to time, it is important to seek professional treatment when it is interrupting life activities or personal wellbeing
It his not uncommon in our rehab programs to have clients experience an interruption to their regular sleep/wake cycle. We attend to the regulation of this critical process by therapy modalities such as ACT and DBT that are key to positive outcomes in alcohol and drug detoxification.
Who’s at Risk for Insomnia
From Shift Workers to Sleeping Disorder Patients
Shift workers and patients suffering from other sleep disorders have a higher risk of insomnia. Prolonged changes and disruption to sleep routines and hygiene tend to aggravate it. Insomnia is also related to dissatisfaction with sleep quality, thus resulting in daily physical and emotional symptoms such as chronic pain that impact social and cognitive performance.
Insomnia Classification
Insomnia is divided in the following forms:
Insomnia can be divided into the following forms: acute insomnia, primary chronic insomnia (psychophysiological, paradoxical, and idiopathic), insomnia associated with mental health disorders, insomnia related to systemic diseases, and insomnia related to bad habits.
Primary Chronic Insomnia
Primary insomnia can be divided into three subtypes, namely psychophysiological, idiopathic and paradoxical. Psychophysiological insomnia occurs concomitantly with a cognitive hyperalert state characterized by anxiety related to the act of sleeping and the presence of neurocognitive symptoms such as fatigue and irritability. Idiopathic insomnia starts before puberty and persists throughout adulthood, and a family history of insomnia is often present. In paradoxical insomnia, subjective complaints of poor quality sleep arise, despite the lack of objective sleep abnormalities. This subtype of insomnia is related to sleep misperception.
Sleep Habits of Insomniacs
People with insomnia or sleep disorders might also have poor sleep habits, such as consuming caffeinated drinks like chocolate, soda, coffee, or black tea before bed, using appliances with screens like TV, telephones, or computers, and not keeping to a bedtime routine. It is not uncommon for those who use or have a disorder with alcohol or drugs such as meth to suffer from erratic sleeping habits. This makes people feel drowsy during the day, affecting memory, concentration, and learning. Cortisol levels affect the sensitivity of organs, glands, and sleep structure.
Insomnia Triggers
Once the triggers go away, insomnia may continue and lead to insomnia disorder. This may happen because of the habits you formed above because of your insomnia (including napping, getting in bed before you are sleepy, lying in bed awake for long periods, alcoholic drinks, internet use, heavy meals, or vigorous physical activity close to bedtime). Other issues such as nutrition or eating disorders, such as a solid desire for losing weight, can interrupt sleep and trigger insomnia.
Insomnia Treatment in La Jolla Recovery
Insomnia disorder can be frustrating, but our wide array of therapies and treatments are here to help you overcome it, including:
CBT: The goal of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia at La Jolla Recovery is to change your behaviors and thoughts to help you sleep. People with insomnia disorder may associate the bed and bedroom with wakeful activities or worry about getting sleep. Our therapy helps you start to associate the bed and bedroom with positive thoughts of sleep. You will learn to only get in bed when you are sleepy and only sleep in the bedroom, avoid reading, use your laptop, or look at your cell phone or tablet in bed.
We will make sure you get out of bed and leave the bedroom if you cannot sleep. You will gradually spend more time in bed as your sleep improves. CBT also helps you change the way you think about rest. For instance, you will learn to recognize negative thoughts you have about sleep (such as fears about missed sleep and the belief that bedtime has gone out of your control) and replace them with positive ones.
Nowadays, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is a standard treatment for primary insomnia associated with pharmacological therapy. CBT presents an advantage over pharmacological treatment: the low risk of side effects and the long-term maintenance of sleep pattern improvement. It is a focal and direct type of therapy in which patients play an active role.
Cognitive restructuring is mainly based on cognitive symptoms that can cause or perpetuate insomnia. Cognitive restructuring works on concerns, thoughts, false attitudes, irrational beliefs about sleep and amplification of its consequences, false ideas about the causes of insomnia, and disbelief about sleep induction practices and about their capacity to sleep. The goal is to make clients abandon insomnia symptoms by reminding them that how events are thought about or judged determines how individuals regard them. Other experiential therapies are highly supportive of our treatment for compounding and results.
To learn more about other mental health modalities and answers to any questions regarding your sleeping disorders, including insomnia, let us provide answers to your questions. We are currently taking precautions for Covid and hygiene, accentuating our capacity for ambiance in our treatments. Problem with Ambien prescription abuse and need to treat the use disorder and regulate sleep? Also abusing other substances like alcohol or heroin? We’re here to help.
