How can psychological insomnia be cured?

How can mental insomnia be cured? According to the understanding of ordinary people, can simple rescue be cured through psychological adjustment, emotional counseling, and seeing more and doing more happy things?

In fact, insomnia caused by psychological reasons has become a physical and mental disease. It is not a single thing that can be relieved or successfully treated by relaxing the mind. We should rely on the orderly means of professional doctors for treatment and recovery.

Depending on the cause of psychological insomnia, cognitive therapy, sleep stimulation control, sleep restriction therapy, and Morita therapy are currently accepted for treatment under the guidance of psychologists and medical professionals.

1. Cognitive Therapy

Cognitive therapy is a treatment method that uses cognitive and behavioral techniques to change the patient's poor perception of their own psychology and spirit.

For insomniacs, the main reason for insomnia is that they unknowingly fall into distorted, unhealthy, irrational, wrong, negative, radical ideas and wrong ideas, which in turn lead to their own emotions. Disorders and maladaptive behavior to the outside world.

The purpose of cognitive therapy is to correct the patient's irrational cognition and restore its mental and spiritual consciousness to a normal state. That is, reasonable cognition-emotion-behavior is harmonious.

2. Stimulus control therapy

This method seems cruel in reality, but it is an effective method for negative conditioning without requiring any medical equipment. Its implementation process is more like the "psychological suggestion" and "spatial environment isolation" that Orientals often pay attention to.

The specific steps of the method are:

① Make sure that the patient does not stay in bed or bedroom at any time other than sleeping.

② If you cannot fall asleep in bed for 20 minutes, get the patient out of bed, do something gentle, and only go back to bed when you are really sleepy.

③ Ensure that patients wake up at the same time every day and get up immediately, regardless of the quality of sleep at night.

④ Supervise the patient not to go to bed during the day and keep a certain distance from the sleeping environment.

You can't sleep, your mood swings, and your concentration decreases, indicating that you suffer from psychological insomnia

3. Morita therapy

In daily life, many insomniacs report that the harder they try to fall asleep, the more nervous they become. I have also tried various methods to solve it, and the result is that the brain becomes more active and it is more difficult to fall asleep. Morita Therapy focuses on:

① The patient should experience sleep while resting.

②If you feel sleepy while resting, you can lie on the bed at any time without choosing a time.

③ It is strictly forbidden for patients to force themselves to sleep, and psychologically eliminate the nervousness about sleep.

④Take sleep as a very simple thing in your daily life. If you don't take it seriously, go to sleep immediately when you feel tired.

Through the above approaches, we have sorted out the concept and possible psychological causes of insomnia. It can be seen that insomnia is not as simple as we imagine in our daily life, and its treatment is not as simple as excluding psychological factors, but a complete and orderly process.