rahulshiv

Hey HN! I'm a former insomniac that went through a behavioral therapy program to sleep better. I teamed up with some behavioral therapists to create Sleepedy, an iOS app that connects you with a sleep coach and follows an evidence based program to help you sleep better. Evidence-based treatment (EBT) refers to treatment that is backed by scientific evidence. That is, studies have been conducted and extensive research has been documented on a particular treatment, and it has proven to be successful.

Let me know if I can answer any questions regarding the product or our methods :)

To learn more about our therapy method: http://ilya.sukhar.com/blog/an-algorithmic-solution-to-insom...

Hey Hacker News

Sleepedy is an iOS app that pairs you with a sleep coach & administers sleep therapy. We want to help people sleep better without taking any sleeping pills or aids.

Sleepedy is built around Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia or CBT-I (http://sleepeducation.org/treatment-therapy/cognitive-behavi...). People often confuse sleep hygiene (eg: Don’t use screens at night) with sleep therapy. Sleep hygiene is good for small deltas in sleep improvement, but if you’ve struggled with sleep problems for a while, sleep therapy is the way to go. That being said our app is designed for day time use and is not really meant to be used at night.

Our therapy is a little too long to explain in this comment but we created a short guide to it that you can read here: https://www.sleepedy.com/cbt-for-insomnia/

I suffered from insomnia and went through a CBT-I program that helped me sleep better. The flip side was it cost me $700 out of pocket. My hope is that Sleepedy makes this incredibly effective therapy more accessible.

Please try us out, we would love to have you onboard and help you get better sleep.

Yes, working out and showers are definitely good for your sleep.

While it may be hard to wake up at 7, if you could do it, it would generate what we call 'sleep pressure' for the next night. Basically you are tiring your self into sleeping more when you are in bed vs being awake and tossing and turning.

Also when you hop out of bed, do something relaxing like listening to music or reading a book. If you started working it could stimulate your mind and keep you up even longer.

In that 8 hour window did you go to sleep only when you are sleepy? That is the biggest guiding principle of sleep restriction. You want a fixed wake-up time but NOT a fixed sleep time.

Also re: Our app is never supposed to be used at night. It just provides you with the tools (coach, behavioral techniques, sleep schedule) that are consumed during the day.

I'd be happy to set you up with an extended trial (~1 month) and would love to see if our coaches and the above method could help you sleep better.

I'm very sorry to hear that. If you don't mind me asking, how long did you consistently try it for? and did you see any improvement?

Hey, author here. I did have Insomnia for a few months before coming across Sleep Restriction (the method in question in the article) after some serious life-changing events.

Here is Stanford's guide to sleep restriction: https://stanfordhealthcare.org/medical-treatments/c/cognitiv...

This is an evidence-based method, meaning its been proven clinically to work. I'll make sure to add some citations so it seems more legitimate.

PS: We also have a full guide on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) for which sleep restriction is a subset: http://sleepedy.com/cbt-for-insomnia

Not yet but we are working on it right now :)

Hey HN! I'm a former insomniac that went through a behavioral therapy program to sleep better. I teamed up with some behavioral therapists to create Sleepedy, an iOS app that connects you with a sleep coach and follows an evidence based program to help you sleep better.

Evidence-based treatment (EBT) refers to treatment that is backed by scientific evidence. That is, studies have been conducted and extensive research has been documented on a particular treatment, and it has proven to be successful.

Let me know if I can answer any questions regarding the product or our methods :)

To learn more about our therapy method: https://www.sleepfoundation.org/articles/cognitive-behaviora...

http://ilya.sukhar.com/blog/an-algorithmic-solution-to-insom...