Dr. Sue McCurry

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Life's Dirty Little Secrets Podcast | Breaking Silence Around the Secrets We All Carry · Secret #83: Sleep Myths with Dr. Sue McCurry · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

So everybody's born to be a certain kind of a sleeper.

And women are more predisposed towards sleep difficulties than men are.

Sometimes there are genetic factors.

You can

Talk to people whose

siblings or parents have all been poor sleepers.

Or maybe they were raised in a a trauma, a traumatic household.

And and and they their nervous system just got wired up towards hypervigilance at night and bec because of the threat that they were under when they were very young.

I mean all these things has one to be some sort of a sleeper.

But then the second piece stands for precipitating factors.

And so the theory would say, just as you were giving these examples, Simma, often there's something that happens in life that starts the insomnia pattern off.

So it might be menopause, it might be the birth of a child, it might be that dissertation that I was studying for fifty seven years ago.

Uh it might be a car accident, a bereavement, uh a major health problem.

Any number of things can kick us up into a poor sleep pattern.

And insomnia is defined as trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, or

or waking up too early, at least three nights a week, for at least three months.

I mean that's chronic insomnia.

And it has to be interfering with daytime quality of life.

So there are many people who are short sleepers that are just fine during the day.

They're they're not impacted.

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