Insomnia Treatment in Scottsdale, AZ
Freedom from Insomnia means
going from
Constantly Tired to Constantly Refreshed!
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Many people with Insomnia avoid seeking medical help because they think the only treatment is Insomnia Medication.
This isn't true!
Neuregen's Sleep Optimization Approach seeks to Improve Sleep by Improving Brain Function.
Integrative psychiatry combined with brain rehabilitation offers a powerful combination for Insomnia relief.
Insomnia is one of the most common sleep disorders worldwide, affecting millions of people every year. Defined as difficulty falling or staying asleep despite the opportunity to sleep. It is also characterized as not waking sufficiently refreshed. There are two primary types of insomnia: acute, often triggered by a stressful event and lasting only a few days or weeks, and chronic, persisting for a month or longer and sometimes with no clear cause.
What Insomnia Feels Like
For those who experience insomnia, it often feels like a nightly struggle. Many describe it as lying awake with a racing mind, where the more they try to sleep, the more elusive it becomes. Even when sleep does come, it may feel shallow or unrefreshing, leaving them feeling tired, foggy, and irritable the next day. The cycle of poor sleep often feeds anxiety about sleep itself, which can worsen symptoms.
Potential Effects of Insomnia
The consequences of untreated insomnia are far-reaching, impacting both mental and physical health:
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Daytime Fatigue and Reduced Functioning: Persistent fatigue, low energy, and limited ability to focus can interfere with work, school, and personal tasks.
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Mental Health Impact: Insomnia is linked with heightened levels of anxiety and depression, which can create a feedback loop that perpetuates sleep problems.
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Cognitive Decline: Insufficient sleep affects concentration, memory, and decision-making, often making even simple tasks feel more challenging.
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Physical Health Concerns: Insomnia is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases, immune system dysfunction, weight gain, and diabetes.
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Mood and Relationship Strain: Frustration, irritability, and mood swings due to sleep deprivation can strain relationships with friends, family, and coworkers.
Treatment Options for Insomnia
Fortunately, insomnia is treatable! Potential therapies include:
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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I): One of the most effective, evidence-based treatments for insomnia, focused on changing negative thoughts and behaviors related to sleep. CBT-I addresses sleep habits and teaches strategies to manage worries about sleep, helping to break the cycle of anxiety that can perpetuate insomnia. CBT-i is a component of our insomnia approach at Neuregen.
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Brain-Based Therapies: Approaches like neurofeedback or meditation aim to help the brain relax into sleep by training the brain’s response to stress and promoting calm. In appropriate cases (these are not always indicated), these can promote better sleep without medication.
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Prescription Medications: In cases where therapy alone doesn’t provide enough relief, we can prescribe medications. Options include sedative-hypnotics, benzodiazepines, and melatonin agonists, all of which can help induce sleep. However, medications are generally considered a short-term solution and we generally only prescribe them when other options haven't worked.
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Integrative Psychiatry opens the door to other, non-pharmaceutical options to aid in sleep quality, including 'natural' and nutritional remedies. When combined with other therapies, these can provide a synergistic effect.
While insomnia can feel like a complex and frustrating condition, taking steps to address insomnia can improve quality of life, prevent long-term health impacts, and help people find the restful sleep they need to thrive.
Overview of Neuregen's
Treatments for Insomnia
Integrative
Sleep Assessment Process
Simply put: Insomnia cannot be adequately assessed in a single visit and in a single interview. Neuregen's assessment process for insomnia involves a comprehensive psychiatric and neurological assessment, as well as a sleep-specific assessment process. This process identifies your specific insomnia pattern as well as opportunities to improve sleep quality.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT-i)
A psychotherapeutic-based approach and one of the most effective, evidence-based treatments for insomnia, focused on changing negative thoughts and behaviors related to sleep. CBT-I addresses sleep habits and teaches strategies to manage worries about sleep, helping to break the cycle of anxiety that can perpetuate insomnia.
Integrative Psychiatry
The application of evidence-based, current standard medical therapies in addition to complementary and alternative (CAM) options for a comprehensive and personalized approach to insomnia therapy.
Insomnia Medications
While we generally reserve prescription medication as a therapy of "last resort" and a "time limited" option, some cases warrant the precise use of prescriptive sleep aids. Our providers are suitably trained to prescribe and oversee prescriptions for improvement of sleep.
Functional
Medicine
A holistic approach to improving sleep that considers factors like nutrition, hormonal imbalances, gut health, chronic stress, and environmental toxins. While most cases of insomnia can be helped without extensive measures, functional medicine holds potential to help achieve more restful, restorative sleep, when frontline therapies fail to produce adequate relief.
Brain-based
Therapies
Neurorehabilitation and brain-based therapies can help improve sleep quality and reduce insomnia symptoms. These therapies can be applied to retrain the brain's patterns and responses to stress, potentially addressing some of the root causes of insomnia. This is particularly helpful in cases of sleep disruption due to underlying brain conditions, such as concussion, dysautonomia (e.g., POTS), brain injury, and chronic illnesses affecting brain function.