Re:Elon Musk Confronts a Fateful Tweet and an ‘Excruciating’...
by taternuts on Friday August 17, 2018 @12:56PM
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It's a whole lot better than nothing, that's for sure.
Re:Elon Musk Confronts a Fateful Tweet and an ‘Excruciating’...
by elicash on Friday August 17, 2018 @02:02PM
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It's not Ambien or nothing for most people. This is a false choice and a dangerous way of framing it. Cognitive therapy for insomnia is just as effective in short-term and, unlike sedatives, do not cause sleep to be worse in the future.
http://www.sleepeducation.org/treatment-therapy/cognitive-be...
> Unfortunately, the current set or classes of sleeping pills that we have do not produce naturalistic sleep. So they are all a broad set of chemicals that we call the sedative hypnotics. And sedation is not sleep. It's very different. It doesn't give you the restorative natural benefits of sleep.
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/20/630792401/sleep-scientist-war...