How to treat psychogenic insomnia

Psychogenic insomnia is a symptom of sleep disorder, mainly manifested as difficulty in falling asleep, each time sleep time is more than half an hour or more, some patients are also accompanied by an increase in arousal, the number of awakening more than twice a night and shorten the duration of sleep, sleep brainwave monitoring will be found in the patient’s sleep slow wave reduction and excessive arousal. Currently, the mainstream treatment method is medication plus CBT. Drugs can symptomatically improve the patient’s symptoms, such as difficulty in falling asleep, which can be treated with fast-acting drugs, such as zopiclone, zolpidem tartrate and so on. If sleep duration is shortened and intermediate awakenings are increased, benzodiazepines such as lorazepam can be used. The combination of CBT psychotherapy on the basis of medication can effectively improve the patient’s cognition and make the patient accept the current symptoms. And bedtime can be relaxed through behavior modification to improve the patient’s bad mood, so medication plus psychotherapy can effectively treat psychogenic insomnia symptoms.