Sleeping tablets are the most common first response to insomnia and the least likely to fix it on their own. Persistent sleep problems usually have drivers — stress, anxiety, low mood, or habits that have quietly formed around the bad nights — and treating those is what produces durable change.
What is sleep disorders?
Sleep disorders affect sleep quality, timing, or duration — such as insomnia — and are frequently connected to underlying stress, anxiety, or depression.
Common symptoms
Symptoms vary between people, and you do not need to recognise all of these to benefit from an assessment.
- Difficulty falling or staying asleep
- Waking up too early or waking frequently
- Excessive daytime sleepiness
- Irritability or poor concentration
- Low energy through the day
- Racing thoughts at bedtime
When to seek help
If poor sleep lasts more than a few weeks and impairs daytime functioning, professional evaluation helps address root causes.
How Trio Mindspace can help
Dr. Surana evaluates psychological and behavioural contributors, using targeted therapy (such as CBT-I), lifestyle strategies, and medication when necessary.
Every plan begins with a full assessment rather than an assumption. Dr. Surana will explain what she thinks is happening, set out the options, and agree the approach with you before anything starts. You can read more about her background and approach, or see all conditions treated at the clinic.
Frequently asked questions
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia is a structured, short-term programme that retrains the association between bed and sleep. It addresses sleep timing, the habits that maintain insomnia, and the anxious thinking that builds around bedtime. It is the recommended first-line treatment for chronic insomnia in most guidelines.
Not as a default. Sedatives can help briefly in specific situations, but they do not resolve the underlying cause and can create dependence. Where they are used, it is deliberately short-term and alongside behavioural treatment.
Bedtime is often the first quiet moment of the day, so unprocessed worry surfaces then. It is one of the most common features of stress-related insomnia, and it responds well to specific techniques rather than to trying harder to sleep.
Possibly. Sleep apnoea, thyroid problems and certain medications all disturb sleep. Assessment includes screening for these, with referral where a non-psychiatric cause looks likely.