On February 2, 2008, CCTV's People's New Weekly broadcast "Sleep expert Li Shunwei teaches you how to have a good sleep". According to statistics, there are about 300 million people with sleep disorders in China, and the number of people with poor sleep is as high as 500 million. Among the insomniacs, 73% have never seen a specialist or received medication. Insomnia has become a psychological disease that puzzles many people and seriously affects the quality of work and life. Among the insomniacs, 80% of insomnia is caused by psychological reasons. Professor Li Shunwei, a former director of the Department of Neurology of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, is known as an "insomnia expert" and has long been concerned about insomnia. His book about sleep, You Can Sleep Better, once became a sleep book for insomniacs. Recently, Professor Li walked into People's New Weekly of CCTV, telling the main reasons of insomnia and how to treat insomnia with the right medicine. The definition of sleep in the four standard medical books for insomnia is very simple, that is, it is called insomnia if you are not satisfied with the quality and quantity of sleep, and it is called insomnia as long as you can't sleep, wake up and sleep badly. Professor Li Shunwei's definition of insomnia is more specific. Standard 1: lying in bed for more than 30 minutes without falling asleep; Standard 2: wake up in the middle of the night and wake up more than two or three times; Standard 3: wake up before dawn, commonly known as getting up early; Standard 4: nightmare, nightmare, the plot of nightmare is like TV series. It is also important to note that if you don't sleep well at night, you will be full of energy, happy and not make mistakes at work the next day. According to American standards, this situation can not be diagnosed as insomnia, but can only be considered as insufficient sleep time. Professor Li Shunwei also said that insomnia is the most common disease, but if it only happens occasionally or briefly, and the situation does not belong to the above four standards, then you should not define your sleep state as insomnia, otherwise it will bring you greater mental stress.
Depression and anxiety are important causes of insomnia. What percentage of people who suffer from insomnia are caused by mental stress and what percentage are caused by physical factors? Li Shunwei pointed out that more than 80% of insomnia patients in outpatient or ward are caused by psychological and mental stress. Therefore, the main method to treat insomnia is to solve the psychological burden of insomnia. Depression and anxiety are important causes of insomnia. Professor Li said that there was such a real case. A freshman boy couldn't sleep for three months and couldn't sleep all night. It's no use taking all the medicine. Finally, Professor Li said to the young man, please pour out all your words to me. Freshman boys frankly told each other that their girlfriend of two years got married three months ago and the groom was not him. Since then, he has been insomnia. Later, I took a lot of sleeping pills and didn't cure it. He still can't sleep. Professor Li gave him a prescription to try. When he saw the prescription, he smiled and wrote four words' Find another one'! Sure enough, in less than two weeks, he accepted another relationship and the symptoms of insomnia disappeared. "In fact, if you want to cure insomnia, you must first solve your heart disease." Professor Li said. For other methods to treat insomnia, such as drinking milk and soaking feet in hot water before going to bed, "these can help people sleep better or improve the quality of sleep, but if insomnia itself is caused by mental stress, I am afraid that only eliminating their own pressure is the right way", Professor Li Shunwei suggested. When we encounter insomnia, we are like ants on hot bricks, and the pain of insomnia can only be experienced by those who have experienced it. Insomnia patients are willing to try as long as they can alleviate the situation at that time. Sleeping pills and health care products, like straws, have become many people's sleep books. So is it safe to take sleeping pills? Can health care products help people sleep? First: Is it safe to take sleeping pills? What kind of people need sleeping pills? Professor Li thinks that some people can take sleeping pills. For example, those who really can't sleep well and have chronic insomnia. I need to use some sleeping pills for fear of affecting my work and life the next day. This method is correct. But there are many problems behind insomnia. In other words, insomnia is caused by many subjective reasons, such as anxiety, depression, etc., and under the condition of long-term psychological stress, people who belong to "high pressure" insomnia can't solve the problem by taking sleeping pills at all. People with anxiety and depression can't just take sleeping pills. They first need to cure anxiety and depression according to this disease. Second: Can health products help you sleep? Many health care drugs are said to be better than sleeping pills, because they have no side effects, are good for health and can ensure sleep. Is it really as advertised? "Some health care products are useful, which should be admitted. For example, I'll give an example of Lingzhi film. Its active ingredient is Ganoderma lucidum, which has a calming effect and can help sleep. Some Chinese herbal medicines have hypnotic effects, such as the well-known Semen Platycladi and Semen Ziziphi Spinosae, both of which are unique skills of Chinese medicine and can be safely used to treat insomnia. Health care drugs containing these ingredients can help sleep in a certain sense. " But there are some so-called Chinese herbal medicine health care, which is not what they say. After drug testing, the test results are often tongue-tied. There are four kinds of western medicine ingredients in the medicine, which will cause the human body to rely on the medicine. As long as the drug is stopped, the patient can't sleep at all, which is commonly known as drug addiction. Once this happens, it is more terrible than insomnia itself, so the choice of health care products must be scientific and cautious.