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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 616.8498 EAN: 9780520246300 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0520246306 Label: University of California Press Manufacturer: University of California Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 520 Publication Date: March 10, 2008 Publisher: University of California Press Studio: University of California Press Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: I can't work, I can't think, I can't connect with anyone anymore. . . . I mope through a day's work and haven't had a promotion in years. . . . It's like I'm being sucked dry, eaten away, swallowed up, coming unglued. . . . These are voices of a few of the tens of millions who suffer from chronic insomnia. In this revelatory book, Gayle Greene offers a uniquely comprehensive account of this devastating and little-understood condition. She has traveled the world in a quest for answers, interviewing neurologists, sleep researchers, doctors, psychotherapists, and insomniacs of all sorts. What comes of her extraordinary journey is an up-to-date account of what is known about insomnia, providing the information every insomniac needs to know to make intelligent choices among medications and therapies. Insomniac is at once a field guide through the hidden terrain inhabited by insomniacs and a book of consolations for anyone who has struggled with this affliction that has long been trivialized and neglected. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - More Thanks To Gayle GreeneFinally, research that supports the "truths" about insomnia. I am a lifetime sufferer and I took copious notes. Other reviewers have nicely summarized the author's helpful hints, her empowering research, the validation readers will get from reading this book and the interesting and easy read the author has accomplished. I want to add two things. First, I finally have a VOCABULARY and a language to use when discussing my affliction. For example: broken sleep-switch, a defect in the sleep system, ... Read More Rating: - Insomnia: Whose problem is it, finally?There is something heroic -- as well as wonderfully clear, deeply informative -- in this critical tale of determination to understand an elusive, often discredited, condition about which so many people, from family, friends and lovers to world-renowned scientists, have their victim-blaming doubts. It is not finally insomniacs who emerge from Greene's book as having a problem. It is worlds set up on the premise, a premise that turns around and becomes a requirement, that we all behave as if we are ... Read More Rating: - Finally someone put into words the public & private impact of living with chronic, long term insomniaIt's as though someone finally got it! I've been trying to explain to doctors for years how this problem impacts my life. Looking for solutions, or even interest from the medical community has been impossible. The impression that they just don't care about my suffering was not always accurate. I now realize that there are few options for doctors to choose from to help a patient overcome sleep disorders. I know one thing though... the more we talk about it in an eloquent and coherent way the way ... Read More Rating:  - For those of us who need more than 2 hours sleep ...I ordered and read this book after hearing most of an interview with Gayle Greene on NPR ... I believe it was Talk of the Nation. I was impressed with what she had to say, her professionalism, and her obvious passion for the sugject. I wanted to hear more. Greene would like this book to give a voice to insomnia, and I believe she has done and excellent job of speaking for those with the complaint ... symptom ... disorder ... Even she seems unsure what to call it. "Insomniac" is a rewarding book, ... Read More Rating: - LOVED THIS BOOK !!!!!I REALLY ENJOYED THIS BOOK . IT WAS VERY WELL WRITTEN AND EASY TO FOLLOW. I HAVE SUFFERED FROM INSOMNIA FOR SO LONG AND COULD REALLY RELATE TO GAIL. THIS BOOK IS NOT LIKE SOME OF THE SELF HELP BOOKS OUT THERE ABOUT INSOMNIA, THAT TELL YOU HOW TO CURE YOUR INSOMNIA AND NEVER WORK . GAIL GETS TO THE REAL STORY THAT NO ONE LOOKS AT ... INSOMNIA IS NOT SOMETHING YOU ARE DOING OR NOT DOING .. IT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT CAN GET FIXED BY A PILL. IT IS A REAL CONDITION AND NO ONE IS LOOKING TO FIND THE REAL ... Read More 
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