Alot of insomnia is made worse when you take a short acting sleeping aid that then wears off relatively early into your sleep cycle... when the effects wear off, there is a typical "rebound" phenomena causing INCREASED wakefulness at that point, disturbing your sleep, adding to increasingly poor quality sleep, even more fatigue, and so on. The use of the sleep aid becomes even more necessary in the short run, but continues to cause poor sleep in the long run because of the rebound effects. A vicious cycle, indeed. Benadryl is just an antihistamine with sedation as a side effect- while it may help you fall asleep, I believe it also can causes poor quality sleep. Quantity and quality of sleep aren't the same thing, and a long night's sleep can be of such poor quality that it's really not very restful at all... Alcohol is a very fast acting "sedative" that also calms you a bit in the short run, but causes very restless and poor quality sleep in the long run. The rebound effects are even stronger just because of how quickly it goes into and out of the system. Here's a GREAT website with credible info on sleep. It's not hard to get good sleep, but it does take persistence and discipline. Enjoy! National Sleep Foundation |
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