“For about a year I had severe sleep insomnia (repeated sleepless nights) that (probably) eventually influenced my mental state (anxiety conditions…)
I tried to control this problem with short-term effective (benzodiazepine-like) sleeping pills that quickly create an addiction…
The Sleepcompass program was then presented to me by my employer. I was reluctant because this program (covid19 mandatory) is based on modern communication tools (internet, PC, tablet, smartphones) that I eventually developed a real phobia for. But I did not want to say no to that “gentil offer”.
The program is based, among other things, on relaxation techniques (breathing/mindfulness, etc.) for which I am a priori not very receptive. But I was determined to play the game as much as possible…
My efforts to follow the exercises have always been very difficult, but I have always made sure that I have followed the info on the platform with a lot of effort.
The first three weeks I saw no improvement.
But by personal follow-up, the «coach gave me some simple but decisive advice to improve my sleep.
I still don’t know exactly how, but it is a fact that my sleep has improved considerably in the last three weeks of the program. I think that the determinants of this improvement are:
simple but accurate advice on how to gradually reduce the need for sleeping pills
“Hygiene” rules to be observed ’s evening (in particular alcohol consumption)
strict control of the time you spend in bed(sleep restriction)
I did not find the ideal sleep after the program (the probable cause is a certain reduced attention on my part since the end of the program) but I qualify these small disruptions of my sleep as a very banal. Whatever the case, the most important thing is without doubt that I have no serious sleeping problem anymore, I don’t use sleeping pills anymore; I really hope to be out of that rut…
In short, the Sleepcompass program was a little wonder for me – that I really didn’t expect.
So thanks to Claudine for helping to overcome a major difficulty in my life…”
— Pierre Bodin, Worldline