When it comes to treating insomnia, the majority of people will first think of sleeping pills. In this regard, Dr. Xuan Wei of the Sleep Medicine Department of Xiamen Xiangyue Hospital said that although drugs can indeed treat insomnia, but most hypnotic drugs have tolerance and dependence and should not be taken for a long time, especially for young women and minors who are preparing for pregnancy and breastfeeding, and should not easily use sleeping pills. Insomnia patients may want to see the sleep department, so that insomnia from the “heart” and healing. Xiamen Xiangyue Hospital psychology department Wei Xuan this year, 29-year-old Xiamen girl Zhang Li, because of chronic insomnia, eating sleeping pills for three years. She and her husband are eager to have a child, but she knows very well that she can’t get pregnant on medication. In order to get pregnant, she tried to stop taking sleeping pills several times, but they eventually led to a relapse of insomnia and ended in failure. The more she worried the heavier she became psychologically, overly sensitive to her sleep condition, sometimes nervous and anxious when she entered the bedroom at night and saw the bed, so that even after taking the medication, her sleep was sometimes good and sometimes bad. Recently, Zhang Li came to Xiamen Xiangyue Hospital for medical treatment. After understanding the situation, Dr. Xuan Wei from the Sleep Medicine Department suggested her to take cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia. After 6 weeks of treatment and Zhang Li’s cooperation, the patient’s insomnia gradually improved and finally got rid of the vicious cycle of relying on medication to fall asleep. Recently, Zhang Li made a special call to Dr. Xuan Wei: “My insomnia is much better now, and I am conditioning my body to wait for the arrival of my baby.” “For some patients who are not suitable for sleeping pills or who take sleeping pills for a long time, the importance of non-pharmacological treatment is becoming more and more prominent.” Dr. Xuan Wei of the Department of Sleep Medicine at Xiamen Xiangyue Hospital said that insomnia may not always require medication, and for patients who meet the indications for cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia, non-pharmacological treatment can usually have a better outcome. Cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia involves having insomnia patients receive treatment once a week for a six-week period. During treatment, the patient is given a “watch” that looks like a regular watch, but is actually an activity recorder that the patient needs to wear throughout the day. The watch can record the patient’s activities in detail: what time he/she goes to bed, what time he/she goes to sleep, what time he/she wakes up, what time he/she wakes up, effective sleep time and other sleep parameters to help understand the sleep situation of each patient, and at the same time, combined with the sleep diary, the patient will have a customized sleep plan. Then various behavioral treatments are used to change patients’ bad behavioral habits in sleep, combined with cognitive therapy to change patients’ sleep perceptions and gradually adjust the sleep plan until a more desirable treatment effect is achieved. The key to the success of cognitive-behavioral therapy is the patient’s compliance with the treatment, i.e., the higher the degree of cooperation with the treatment, the better the treatment effect.