Key points

As many as 70 million Americans are afflicted with chronic sleep disorders.

Sixty percent of adults fail to get the amount of sleep recommended by the National Sleep Foundation.

Proper sleep hygiene has been proven to help individuals with sleep problems.

Novel techniques like cognitive shuffling can help prime the brain for sleep.

Sleep is deeply tied to our emotional and mental health. Even one poor night of sleep can make us significantly less sharp, more irritable, and more vulnerable to bouts of depression and anxiety . For individuals with psychiatric conditions like clinical depression, generalized anxiety, bipolar disorder , or PTSD , poor sleep can make symptoms worse and impair overall functioning.

Despite the importance of sleep, tens of millions of Am

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