Overthinking These Common Sleep "Rules" Could be Sabotaging Your Shut-Eye
Overthinking These Common Sleep “Rules” Could be Sabotaging Your Shut-Eye © Provided by Real Simple Fixating too rigidly on sleep guidelines can lead to anxiety and further sabotage your sleep. While it's important to bear in mind healthy guidelines for sleep, things can actually backfire if you rigidly follow or overthink all the healthy sleep "rules" out there. It's quite the paradox. "It's a large reason why a lot of people have difficulty sleeping," says Nicole Moshfegh, PsyD, a clinical sleep psychologist at a private practice in Los Angeles. "There may be thoughts people are unaw...