Why Insomnia Often Becomes a Habit

A calm adult in a therapy office learning how CBT-I treats chronic insomnia and sleep anxiety

Why Insomnia Often Becomes a Habit By Dr. Charles R. Freeman, Ph.D. Insomnia often becomes a habit because the brain and body can learn to associate bedtime, the bed, or nighttime waking with alertness instead of sleep. After enough nights of frustration, clock watching, worry, or fear, the nervous system begins preparing for another bad […]