Insomnia can present itself in many ways as an interruption to
sleep and can manifest itself in one or a combination of the
following: It takes you longer than 20 minutes to fall asleep at
night, you wake up several times during the night and cannot get
back to sleep and/or, you wake up one or two hours before you
planned to get up resulting in a loss of sleep. You may spend
ten hours in bed to get just five hours of sleep. Insomnia can
also be present when your sleep is light, meaning you hear
everything that goes on at night so that you feel as though you
haven't truly slept wake up tired. The definition of insomnia is
the presence of anxiety and negative thoughts that prevent sleep
on a nightly basis. Instead of sleep being a welcome relief from
the day, your bed becomes the enemy; a nightly battle to fight.
Attempts to sleep only meet with more frustration and nightly
fears of being unable to sleep. Sleep deprivation leads to
insulin resistance, weight gain, gastrointestinal problems, a
lowered immune sys