Twitter and Facebook Will Soon Be Used to Treat Insomnia

Social networks will soon be used to help overcome sleeplessness amongst insomniacs!

Researchers want to find out if networks such as Twitter and Facebook can augment the effects of existing treatments for insomnia.

Many people who suffer bouts of insomnia are helped in their recovery by using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) through which they learn to avoid the thought patterns and activity that are deemed to make them poor sleepers.
Some of these are already computer-based and they typically involve a patient using the system in isolation.
Some therapists use computer-based learning exercises as a way to embed lessons about more positive patterns of behaviour.

Social networks which give easy access to friends, family and therapists will help reinforce CBT as people interact with them in a more persistent and regular way. This may prolong the beneficial effects of treatment.

Researcher Dr Andrew McCulloch, head of the Mental Health Foundation, said computer-based CBT had the potential to bring help to people who would otherwise find it difficult to get the help they need.

Chi machine helps relaxation and insomnia.

I was reading about the various benefits of the Chi Machine and saw that relaxation and insomnia were two of the benefits.

I have now invested in one, and find that it definitely helps me to relax, helps any anxiety and also helps tension in my back, neck and shoulders.

I don't really know about the insomnia as I no longer suffer from it, but I can see how it could help that too, by allowing you to relax.

The chi machine is a footrest which moves back and forth, carrying your feet briskly from side to side. You lie down with your ankles on the footrest which also elevates them slightly. The movement will carry up through your legs and torso, throughout your entire body, causing you to wiggle back and forth like a fish swimming in water, which opens the vertebrae alleviating stress and tension on the spinal column.
This unique wave like motion replicates exercise and promotes the flow of blood to capillary banks in all extremities of the body, restoring supply to areas that may have suffered poor circulation.