I am not a great sleeper. I am a fairly anxious person and have addressed this with counselling, meditation ......you name it. I am still a poor sleeper.
Frequently reputable newspapers and websites put out information and suggestions on how to stay healthy, look after your brain, look younger etc. Over and over the advice is get 8 hours sleep or thereabouts (as if), don't use technology close to bedtime, drink coffee before midday etc. As if it was as simple as that. The drink coffee part the technology is fine but as if someone can just decide, right from now on I will sleep for 8 hours each night. The articles then generally come to the second part: if you don't manage this you are more likely to get succumb to Alzheimer, dementia, cancer, heart disease. It makes my sleep even more disturbed with this information and nothing more productive or helpful about the 8 hours sleep. This sort of article is lazy and simplistic and as there are so many people who sleep badly it is irresponsible. I realise of course that there is probably nothing untrue about what is said but surely some constructive suggestion about how to achieve more sleep and accessible sources of help needs to be addressed. What do other 'poor' sleepers think?