Offers a comprehensive account of chronic insomnia. This work presents an account of what is known about insomnia, providing the information every insomniac needs to know to make intelligent choices among medications and therapies.

I can't work, I can't think, I can't connect with anyone anymore...I mope through a day's work and haven't had a promotion in years...It's like I'm being sucked dry, eaten away, swallowed up, coming unglued...These are voices of a few of the tens of millions who suffer from chronic insomnia. In this revelatory book, Gayle Greene offers a uniquely comprehensive account of this devastating and little-understood condition. She has traveled the world in a quest for answers, interviewing neurologists, sleep researchers, doctors, psychotherapists, and insomniacs of all sorts. What comes of her extraordinary journey is an up-to-date account of what is known about insomnia, providing the information every insomniac needs to know to make intelligent choices among medications and therapies."Insomniac" is at once a field guide through the hidden terrain inhabited by insomniacs and a book of consolations for anyone who has struggled with this affliction that has long been trivialized and neglected.