There are some patients who just have insomnia and they've had it since they were a kid and we don't quite know why. So when we look at the cause, we…

- Shelby Harris

So the deeper stages of sleep are really those times of quiescence, you're really restoring your body and we have a few different stages of sleep.

- Shelby Harris

So someone who is a child usually goes to bed about 8:00 or 9:00 at night, but then when they have a circadian rhythm shift, it shifts later. And thi…

- Shelby Harris

I'll work on patient's thoughts about sleep, "So I must get eight hours of sleep tonight or I won't sleep tomorrow." That sometimes - or "I won't fun…

- Shelby Harris

We've looked at sleep diaries of patients with insomnia, and they'll say that they don't sleep for one or two days. And the body actually has a natur…

- Shelby Harris

So a lot of people who work rotating shifts and they work at night, their bodies are set to want to be awake during the day and sleep at night. So th…

- Shelby Harris

When you are more awake at nights, they'll toss and turn, they'll think more, they get frustrated. And when that starts to happen, you really don't s…

- Shelby Harris

When they [people with insomnia] start worrying about not sleeping, I'll say, "Say the mantra to myself; if I don't sleep tonight, I'll likely sleep …

- Shelby Harris

So there's a few different ways that we treat insomnia. The first thing that we always do is we look at the cause.

- Shelby Harris