Sleep Disorder

[wolf]

Well, as the saying goes, this stuff is outside my scope of practice ...

I've known a couple of people with sleep disorders, have one or two patients with really bizarre dreams/nighttime hallucinations, but it's not something that we deal with a whole lot.

One thing I strongly suspect is that your therapist is engaging in some expensive voodoo, with a fancy box with some pretty lights, and maybe a digital readout or two. They're not going to let anybody without an M.D. or D.O. behind their name play with anything real.

I hope you're not paying out of pocket for that bit ... because it certainly doesn't sound like anything an insurance company would pay for, not the kinds of insurance companies I deal with, anyway.

Can you get some more details about the device? Maybe we can find out a thing or two.

What I suspect may be a lot more helpful is going to the sleep disorders clinic, getting a sleep study done, and some EEGs. Yeah, they'll probably start with something on the order of "here's a prescription," but hopefully the doc will have a brain behind his/her pen and prescription pad, and address the causes rather than the symptoms.

In the meantime, working on relaxation techniques might be a good approach.