So CBT practitioners work to ease patients' exaggerated fears of the consequences of their sleeplessness.

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His right hand still twined a rosary, its anesthetic routine of prayers his nightly defense against sleeplessness.

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At night, a thick wall of noise seemed to edge closer and louder in proportion with my sleeplessness.

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"You get like five tweets a second" mentioning sleeplessness in the Twitterverse, according to Philippe Lambert, the project's sound designer.

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So why is he suffering dread and sleeplessness prior to his talk?

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Depressive symptoms are not simply feeling miserable, but can include feelings of fear, loneliness irritability or lack of concentration, and even sleeplessness.

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Indeed, months of crying and sleeplessness can take a huge toll on the family, whether it's due to reflux or colic or another cause.

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If 48 (or more) hours of sleeplessness has you ready to drop an inconceivable amount of cash to secure your machine through eBay, hold tight.

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At the first ghostly light, which seemed to radiate not from the sky but from the snow, we got up, our limbs numb and our eyes glazed from sleeplessness, hunger, and darkness, and found our shoes so frozen that, when struck, they rang like bells.

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Girl Scout Troop develops non-pharmaceutical remedy for sleeplessness in senior citizens: When faced with the challenge of alleviating insomnia without complicated drug interactions, The Atomic Flying Pickles, a FIRST Lego League team of 6th grade Girl Scouts hailing from Los Alamos, New Mexico , came up with a novel idea.

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