Insomnia is generally divided into two categories: exogenous insomnia and endogenous insomnia. Exogenous insomnia This type of insomnia resolves quickly when external factors disappear. Endogenous insomnia is a type of insomnia that is typically psychophysiological in nature. Psychophysiological insomnia is insomnia caused by the patient’s excessive preoccupation with sleep problems. The more the patient cannot sleep, the more he or she worries about anxiety, and the more anxious he or she is, the more he or she cannot sleep, which leads to a vicious circle and makes insomnia more and more serious. This disease is actually not uncommon, and studies suggest that the lifetime prevalence of the general population is about 10%-20%, mostly starting in youth (20-30 years old), gradually becoming more pronounced and increasing after middle age, and common in women. Psychophysiological insomnia is divided into two categories, temporary and persistent, according to the duration of insomnia, the difference mainly lies in the length of insomnia duration, within three weeks is temporary, more than three weeks is persistent. What should be done when there is psychophysiological insomnia? 1, to emphasize that temporary insomnia should be dealt with as soon as possible to break the vicious circle, to avoid the curing of insomnia symptoms and the development of persistent insomnia. For temporary insomnia first of all, we should face it correctly, do not be nervous and anxious, worried. 2, remind yourself that temporary insomnia is not related. Generally can automatically relieve, try to make the emotions settle down and relax the mind. Secondly, pay attention to sleep hygiene, change the poor sleep environment, and develop good sleep habits and patterns. 3, again to strengthen the stimulus control training, only when there is a sleepy feeling to go to bed, if 20 minutes still not asleep, instead of lying in bed dry anxious, why not get up to do something, and then go to bed when there is a sleepy feeling. Strengthen sleep time management, by reducing the non-sleep time spent in bed, promote the formation of a regular sleep time, in order to achieve the purpose of consolidating sleep. 4, and finally for the use of drugs, due to the public’s poor perception of hypnotic drugs lead to the more rejection of hypnotic drugs, in fact, hypnotic drugs are not as terrible as we think. For some serious insomnia patients, through self-regulation can not recover, you can eat one or two drugs, you can adjust the factors that interfere with sleep, which is very helpful to interrupt the vicious cycle of insomnia. Another thing to remind you is that many people think that insomnia can be solved by drinking alcohol, which is actually a serious misconception. Although alcohol can be helpful in falling asleep, it can make sleep shallow in the following hours and lead to awakening in the middle of the night, reducing the quality of sleep. For patients already taking hypnotic drugs should not drink alcohol, because the combination of the two may enhance each other’s effects, leading to coma or even death in serious cases, recently reported the song Whitney. Houston died suddenly, the cause of death is because of the sleeping pill alprazolam mixed with alcohol caused. Of course, the above mentioned cases are only psychophysiological insomnia, there are many insomnia is secondary to other problems, such as depression, anxiety disorder patients often accompanied by insomnia symptoms, so when there is a longer period of insomnia symptoms should be timely to the specialist hospital. Finally, I wish you all a good sleep!