Are there stigmas attached to people who have difficulty sleeping?
The stigma is that if you can’t sleep, you must be depressed, and that’s simply not true. And certainly, a lot of people with depression have insomnia. But most people with insomnia are not depressed. But unfortunately, if a 30-year-old woman goes to a doctor’s office and says that she can’t sleep, she’s more likely to walk out with a prescription for an antidepressant than a referral for a sleep evaluation with a specialist, and that’s simply not fair. People also often feel that their sleep issues are a problem that’s in their head and they should be able to figure it out on their own. People don’t realize that they can be helped and that there are physicians who specialize in sleep problems. Often people go to their primary care physician, do not receive a satisfactory answer and then just move on to something else, for example, an over-the-counter remedy or alcohol. What they should really do is if they’re not satisfied with the doctor’s recommendations, they should ask to speak to
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