""It's important to be consistent, intentional, and mindful about sleep," Buenaver, the head of Johns Hopkins' Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program, tells Inverse. "People get frustrated by insomnia, and then it's easy to slip into bad habits, and then you're exhausted and chasing sleep.""
""Everyone wakes up at night, but say you wake up three or four times," Buenaver says. "If we add up your time awake, and it's more than half an hour, that would meet the definition of trouble staying asleep.""
""Insomnia can broadly be defined by three factors: trouble falling asleep, trouble staying asleep, or not feeling rested after sleep.""
About one-third of Americans struggle to fall or stay asleep at any given time, and roughly 10–20% meet criteria for chronic insomnia disorder. Insomnia is defined by trouble falling asleep, trouble staying asleep, or not feeling rested after sleep. Waking multiple times and accumulating more than 30 minutes awake qualifies as trouble staying asleep. Occasional bad nights from stress are common, but insomnia becomes chronic when poor sleep occurs at least three nights per week for several months. Consistent, intentional, and mindful sleep habits reduce the risk of slipping into maladaptive routines that prolong insomnia.
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