Dr Lindsay Browning

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Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball · SLEEP SPECIAL: Rethink Your Sleep With Dr Lindsay Browning · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

So what I would say is a couple of things.

First thing.

Please do not, nobody should have a clock that they can see from their bed.

Like no one should.

Because when you wake up in the middle of the night, if you're awake enough to realize you're awake, we don't need to know what the time is.

Knowing the time is only going to lead to us doing mental calculations about how much sleep we've had, how much time until morning, and make us frustrated.

So turn the clock away.

You have an alarm clock set for the morning, but you don't need to know what time it is.

If it's not sounding, it's not morning.

So don't have a time because that will help you hopefully to go back to sleep again without the frustration and anxiety about, oh my goodness, what time is it?

And secondly, if someone's really struggling with their sleep, which I suspect this person is, because it sounds like they're trying so hard, then there is a treatment for insomnia called Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia, CBTI.

And it is the NICE guideline, NHS World Health Organisation recommended primary treatment for sleeping problems.

And it helps you by helping you to learn how to not be so stressed about sleep and change some of the things that may not be actually helping you.

So a lot of times the good sleep hygiene rules can add a lot of stress and anxiety.

Like I said, it gives you a lot of pressure and to-dos and a must-dos before bed, which just actually mean that when you go to bed, you're more stressed out than you were because you've been doing all these things to force sleep.

So I would suggest that the listener...

contacts their healthcare professional and looks into having CBT-I, which often is available.

Either there are apps that you can do it with or talking therapies or privately.

But CBT-I, I said, I think would be, it would help almost, you know, would really, really help their sleep and give them a way to fix their poor sleep without self trying to do it, which obviously isn't working.

Yeah.

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