A patient complained during a room visit: “I couldn’t sleep all night, Auntie Wang’s snoring is too loud!” Auntie Wang said with a red face while laughing, “No way! I’ve had insomnia for so long, it was hard to fall asleep last night and snore? I didn’t have it before!” The whole ward laughed: “It seems that you sleep too well, Auntie Wang!” This Wang aunt since the total hysterectomy in July 2014, gradually appear insomnia, irritability, head swelling at night, lying in bed for a long time can not fall asleep; after falling asleep dreamy, feel like not sleeping, the average day can only sleep 2 – 3 hours, want to catch up on sleep during the day can not sleep at all. Because of insomnia, she felt like an invalid, did not want to do anything, sad face, all day unhappy, irritable, often crying, and even the idea of self-harm, in just six months, she lost nearly 20 pounds. Desperate, she came to the psychology department for help. In just one day, Auntie Wang was already like two people! A study on sleep published in the prestigious journal Science in 2013 suggests that sleep can promote the recovery of brain cell function and play a protective role. The study found that the brain tissue gap was 60% larger in sleeping mice than in awake mice, that the brains of sleeping mice were more able to clear waste products such as beta amyloid, a protein associated with Alzheimer’s disease, and that beta amyloid flowed out of the brains of sleeping mice two times faster. The incidence of insomnia in modern society is very high, and insomnia patients who come to the hospital generally have a disease duration ranging from several months to more than 10 years, and are often accompanied by anxiety and depression, and the milder ones are generally treated on an outpatient basis, while insomnia patients with heavy anxiety and depression are generally recommended for inpatient treatment. There are many treatment methods for insomnia, and they are also very mature. 1. Drug treatment. It is one of the most effective methods, and it is also the immediate effect that can be felt on the first night of Auntie Wang’s hospitalization. But many people are afraid of medication, think that drugs have dependence, in fact, now the treatment of insomnia is much more than Valium drugs, many sedative antidepressants have been written into the insomnia treatment guidelines. 2, physical therapy. Some patients who are overly worried about the adverse effects of medication on the body can choose physiotherapy. At present, the high-voltage electric potential treatment used in our department is a non-invasive, safe and effective physical therapy for the comprehensive treatment of chronic insomnia, which can improve sleep quickly and deepen sleep, and is easily accepted by patients. It is through the electric field effect, the formation of active potential in the human body, through the nerve fibers to stimulate the lower part of the optic bed and the pituitary gland, to achieve the role of regulating the autonomic nerve, to achieve the effect of treating neurological insomnia symptoms. 3.Psychotherapy. When the mental health declined to the level of the disorder insomnia is highlighted, then it is necessary to do psychotherapy. In particular, most insomnia disturbances originate from life events, or are accompanied by compulsive thinking disorder before going to sleep, and insomnia is caused by fear of not being able to sleep every evening. For example, hypnotherapy, which is widely practiced in our department, has a very high efficacy on insomnia. The psychiatrist’s induction can make the patient get rid of all the symptoms that affect sleep; then, through the hypnotic instructions that hit the nail on the head, all the factors that cause stress, tension, anxiety and frustration can be cathartic, and the deep-seated causes can be eliminated, so that the patient can experience the pleasure and relaxation of the mind and soul. As long as this state of relaxation is experienced regularly, then restoration of normal sleep function is just around the corner. Finally, we remind you that the treatment of chronic insomnia must be a scientific and standardized process of gradual improvement. Individual patients may require long-term treatment.