Wake Up At 3AM And Can't Get Back To Sleep? You Might Have This Condition |
Insomniac woman
I have insomnia, but not the kind that means I struggle to fall asleep (in fact, the speed and ease with which I nod off at night put me off seeking help for years).
Instead, the problem happens in the wee hours of the morning. It reaches roughly 3am, and my body wakes me up – a common enough process, but one which I, for some reason, don’t recover from.
After the disruption, I stay up for hours, only feeling able to sleep when it’s time to get up and go to work. This persists no matter how much shut-eye I do (or don’t) get, how much exercise I do, or how early I go to bed.
If that sounds familiar, you – like me – may have something called sleep maintenance insomnia.
What is sleep maintenance insomnia?
According to Harvard Health, the term refers to a........