So I took a class on sleep and I read some papers about it. Here are some thoughts:
I do think it’s a cause area with a very clear solution: train more imagery rehearsal therapists, and disperse them/make them available through telehealth. I read the papers and it does seem highly effective. I think a lot of people would have enrolled even at high cost if they knew it existed/they had access to it. And then after there were more therapists we could probably talk about raising awareness/providing these servies for free and at places where they are more needed (women’s shelters, refugee camps, etc)
I think you would have made a more powerful argument if you framed it from the point of view of PTSD. Nightmares are a staple of PTSD and IRT is probably the most effective intervention for PTSD! I don’t know the numbers but PTSD is common, and I think if you looked up PTSD you would get better stats about nightmares. I do realize that you didn’t frame it like this because you seem to have a very atypical type of nightmares (lots of variety, and the nightmares aren’t related to a life event that is replayed in your head) and I am sorry for what you have to go throug
So I took a class on sleep and I read some papers about it. Here are some thoughts:
I do think it’s a cause area with a very clear solution: train more imagery rehearsal therapists, and disperse them/make them available through telehealth. I read the papers and it does seem highly effective. I think a lot of people would have enrolled even at high cost if they knew it existed/they had access to it. And then after there were more therapists we could probably talk about raising awareness/providing these servies for free and at places where they are more needed (women’s shelters, refugee camps, etc)
I think you would have made a more powerful argument if you framed it from the point of view of PTSD. Nightmares are a staple of PTSD and IRT is probably the most effective intervention for PTSD! I don’t know the numbers but PTSD is common, and I think if you looked up PTSD you would get better stats about nightmares. I do realize that you didn’t frame it like this because you seem to have a very atypical type of nightmares (lots of variety, and the nightmares aren’t related to a life event that is replayed in your head) and I am sorry for what you have to go throug