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Just as effective as sleeping pills, great data more effective in the long term. There's a recent study published that after working with a therapist, some of the benefits lasted almost a decade, you know, now, if you stop sleeping pills, usually you have rebound insomnia, where your sleep goes back to being just as bad if not worse.
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cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia, which is a non-drug approach, psychological, and quite effective from what I understand. Just as effective as sleeping pills, great data, more effective in the long term. There was a recent study published that after working with that therapist, some of the benefits lasted almost a decade.
but it's just as efficacious as sleeping pills in the short term but what's better is that when you start working with your therapist those benefits can last now i think the last report was maybe somewhere between up to five years that you can maintain that benefit unlike sleeping pills where when you stop them you not only go back to the bad sleep that you had it's usually even worse it's called sleep rebound insomnia
It is completely safe. And it is more efficacious in the long-term. And it's called cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia or CBTI. Based on its efficacious nature, and they've been done lots of randomized clinical control trials, it is just as powerful as sleeping pills in the short-term.
Unlike sleeping pills, which is when you stop them, you have what we call rebound insomnia, which is that you tend to go back to the bad sleep that you are having, if not worse sleep that you are having before you started taking sleeping pills.
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