Behavioral-therapy: A new tool for treating insomnia

So what can behavioral-therapy do for you?

Over the years, people who couldn't go to sleep, didn't have many choices. But now there is an insomnia treatment that's an alternative to pills, even for people with severe or chronic sleep problems. It is called behavioral-therapy or cognitive therapy.

This simple treatment has long been used to treat a range of problems, such as depression, panic attacks, eating disorders and substance abuse.

Now, it has also proved effective against insomnia. It is so effective, in fact, that for most people it works much better than sleeping pills — with no side effects.

Cognitive behavioral therapy can benefit nearly everyone, including older adults who have been taking sleep medications. Cognitive therapy maybe helpful for people with physical problems such as restless legs syndrome, and those with primary insomnia, an intractable, lifelong inability to get enough rest. What's more, the effects seem to last.

Note: Behavioral modification techniques and cognitive therapy techniques became joined together, giving rise to cognitive Behavioral therapy.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can help you to change how you think ("Cognitive") and what you do ("Behavior).” It focuses on the problems you have and looks for ways to improve in this case, you insomnia.

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