Can you die from insomnia?
Yes.
But what are the odds?
Very slim. And I explain why, even though chronic insomnia feels like death, scientifically you likely won’t die directly from insomnia symptoms. There IS an insomnia-related, death-causing disease that affects a very small population.
Are you part of that population? I highly doubt it.
For a time, I felt like *I* was going to one day die from it! I was in the military and around heavy cargo planes. There were days where I just couldn’t sleep and I didn’t understand why because I was always physically exhausted.
Thank goodness I eventually figured out the causes of my insomnia and that, even though I wanted to die, insomnia in itself wasn’t a disease, but a symptom of my causes!
What I *didn’t* have is Fatal Familial Insomnia. And in an odd way, that was relieving.
Learn about the Fatal Familial Insomnia symptoms in this episode of the “Why Behind Your Z’s”.
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