What To Do If I Can Not Sleep? - Insomnia

Insomnia is a sleep disorder in which the patient has an inability to fall asleep, stay asleep or sleep of poor quality . More than 30% of US population suffers from insomnia and it is estimated  2,767,350 person in Malaysia with insomnia symptoms. Most of the insomnia patient is also having symptoms of anxiety, depression, poor concentration and exhaustion. Insomnia caused significant impact on psychological well being and daily functional impairment. It can lead to memory problems, increased risk of heart disease and automobile related accidents

3 types of insomnia

a) Transient insomnia
     Temporary or short duration of sleep disorder. Usually cause by stress, change of environment or encounter with unexpected events

b) Secondary insomnia
     Insomnia caused by another disorder such as anxiety or depression

c) Primary insomnia
    Insomnia with unknown origin  

Cause Of Insomnia

a) Psychological condition
     stress, guilt, bereavement and other emotion interruption could cause acute or chronic insomnia

b) hormone imbalance
    menstruation, menopause

c) medical condition
    pain, constipation, depression, post traumatic stress disorder, brain injury

c) use of psychoactive substance
    caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, drugs

d) withdrawal of drugs
    pain killer, anti-anxiety drugs

e) poor sleep condition
    noise, exercise before sleep

Treatment Of Insomnia

a) Pharmacological treatments for insomnia
     Medication are effective to reduce symptoms of acute insomnia. However, it is not recommended for long term use as it may resulting to medication dependency and the body immune to the prescribed drugs. Other side effects are drowsiness, allergic and change of mood. Medication does not address the root of insomnia.

b)Non pharmacological treatment for insomnia
   This method is superior than pharmacological treatments as the effect is long lasting and usually find solution to address the root of insomnia.This include appropriate exercise, relaxation technique, acupuncture, pay attention to sleep hygiene and behavioral intervention.

Use Of Hypnosis In Insomnia
Hypnosis tools and technique is very applicable to treat insomnia in the below areas
a) induce natural sleep
b) find the psychological root cause of insomnia with un-conscious mind
c) condition the body to specific sleeping routine
d) reduce anxiety, stress and other emotion issues which affect sleeping
e) eliminate psychological root cause such as post traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, depression and obsessive compulsive disorder

With appropriate psychotherapy intervention, you can gain back your quality of life.



Reference :   Treating Insomnia With Hypnosis In Malaysia
                      Natural Healing For Insomnia

Treating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder With Hypnosis

Extrapolations of prevalence and incidence statistics suggested that we have 285,383 Obsessive Compulsive Disorder patient in Malaysia. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is an anxiety disorder with 2 components :

   Obsessive - intrusive thoughts, feeling which cause tension, fear, anxiety or uneasiness

    Compulsive - repetitive action or behaviours to prevent or ease the intrusive thought
                           or discomfort

Usually the patient is aware of the obsessive compulsive behaviour which is unreasonable but will not be able to control. Compulsive symptom could be time consuming, causing emotion and financial distress which results to social impairments.

The most common compulsive behaviours are : repeatedly checking
                                                                           : excessive washing or cleaning
                                                                           : arrange and re-arranging
                                                                           : preoccupation with sexual

It is believe that traumatic experiences during childhood contribute to the development of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

Medication such as tricyclic antidepressant clomipramine or psychotherapeutic intervention could appropriately treat Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Combination of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) and relevant hypnosis technique could effectively eliminate intrusive thoughts, compulsive behaviour and go into the root cause of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder to reintegrate dissociated material from possible traumatic past experience.

With the use of Clinical Hypnosis technique, therapeutic session could significantly reduced as compared to pure conventional psychotherapy sessions, as Clinical Hypnosis is able to make change deep into the subconscious level of the mind.


Reference : Obsessive Compulsive treatment in Malaysia

Past Trauma Cure With EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Processing) & Hypnosis Techniques In Malaysia

Nowadays, you can find some well train therapist by London College Of Clinical Hypnosis using Eye Movement Desensitisation and Processing ( EMDR ) protocol to effectively treat past trauma stress disorder ( PTSD ) in Malaysia.

Treating past trauma distress symptom with EMDR is effective and receives world wide recognition. The therapist will facilitate eye movement of the patient to rapidly process traumatic or upsetting past memories so that the patient could overcome his past trauma stress disorder ( PTSD ) symptoms such as  anxiety, depression, insomnia, recurrent thought, excessive guilt, palpitations, stomach tightening, sweating when recall, easily agitated and not trusting.

After a traumatic event, patient may develop some maladaptive coping strategies include excessive use of drugs or alcohol, promiscuity ( practice of casual sex with multiple sexual partners), aggression, self harm and avoidance. Coping strategies is very important after a trauma event. In a research on 2004 Malaysia tsunami disaster survivors, there is a great significant difference in the adaptive and maladaptive coping styles on survivors with past trauma stress disorder ( PTSD ) symptom and those who do not.

During the healing process, patient will be led to go through a series of self discovery to gain insight of the trauma event. Appropriate inner resources will be enhanced in vitro for the patient to gain trauma resolve experience in a safe environment. In this way, it is much effective than conventional method which  involved an Advisor whose analysis and advice base on the advisor's perception and experience.

In my experience, a combination of hypnotherapy and EMDR will shorten the number of therapy session and gain long lasting effect as the healing is able to sink as deep as the subconscious level.

Reference : Trauma Treatment In Malaysia