Insomnia

Do you have insomnia?

There is a good chance that you have insomnia if you check each of these boxes:

You have been experiencing one or more of the following
sleep difficulties:0

• It takes you a long time to fall asleep
• You wake up and have difficulty getting back to sleep
• You wake up too early and can’t get back to sleep

You experience difficulties the day after not sleeping well. These include one or more of the following:0

• Difficulty staying awake
• Needing to nap
• Not being able to function well socially, at work, at school, or in other situations because of feeling tired

You are experiencing these difficulties despite having the opportunity to get a good night’s sleep0

You don’t have another sleep problem, like restless legs syndrome, sleep apnea, a circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorder such as shift-work sleep-wake disorder, or narcolepsy.0

To be diagnosed as having Insomnia Disorder (the term used by the American Psychiatric Association) or Chronic Insomnia (the term used by the International Classification of Sleep Disorders), you must experience the above difficulties on 3 or more nights per week for 3 months or longer. If your problem with insomnia has been less than 3 months the condition is called brief insomnia disorder or short-term insomnia.