Insomnia

In the year 1999 a hard hitting (literally) movie came out that starred Edward Norton and Brad Pitt as the same character, imagine that. The movie began with Norton's character narrating about his life. He goes on to include that he has difficulty sleeping, so when he is diagnosed with insomnia his doctor in place of prescribing him with some kind of drug recommends him to try some support groups of many kinds so that he may witness more severe suffering. After finding himself attending many different support groups pretending to have all these issues he finds that it relieves his insomnia, that is until he runs into a female that is doing the same thing that he is which in turn disturbs him and brings back his insomnia and more. As a result he develops dissociated personalities which is where Brad Pitt's character comes in to play as Tyler Durden. Tyler Durden is the more free spirit of the two and ultimately gets him into a lot of mischief throughout the movie.



In chapter 4 in our text it discusses how insomnia is a sleep disorder which is the inability to get to sleep and stay asleep. Having anxiety, focusing too much on trying to sleep and being a worry wart are some reasons why someone may experience insomnia. And then of course there are those physical reasons like too much intake of caffeine or indigestion that could also produce insomnia. Besides medication to relieve insomnia a new treatment for example like the use of cognitive-behavior therapy which is a type of therapy in which both rational thinking and controlled behavior are stressed to cure insomnia.