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Reader's Digest — Connect with the Reader's Digest community on Facebook. Share our most talked about stories, enter contests, read our blogs and download our latest widgets. Plus, find our most popular photos and videos or upload your own. Connect with the ...More…
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The Manager Who Couldn't Write
Reader's Digest — What launched Amy Tan's career was not a big break, but a kick in the butt. Before the million-copy sales of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife and The Hundred Secret Senses, Amy Tan was a writer. A business writer. She and a partner ran a ...More…
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What Causes Stress?
Reader's Digest — From Looking After Your Body Regardless of the cause, stress sets in motion certain automatic changes in the body that are designed to give it a quick burst of energy. The pattern of changes has been called the "fight-or-flight" response because ...More…
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Middle-of-the-Night Waking
Reader's Digest — When you gradually fall asleep (rather than crashing into bed), noises, light and other disturbances won't wake you as easily. Dim the lights an hour before bed and use a HEPA filter to improve air quality. Blue-blocking light bulbs encourage ...More…
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How to Deal With Insomnia
Reader's Digest — Try behavior changes and proper use of medication. At night, keep away from bright light. In the a.m., open the shades and go out for a walk, to tell your brain, "This is the start of the day." You can try OTC sleep aids, but if you suffer for . ...More…
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The Magic Power of Sleep
Reader's Digest — When did 24-7 become a way of life? The massive decline in sleep happened so slowly and seamlessly that few seemed to notice the trend. Was it because of the baby boomlet and all those 2 a.m. feedings? The growing seduction of the Internet, video ...More…
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Nightmares: What You Can Do
Reader's Digest — Nightmares can be triggered by medications, oddball genes, degenerative neurological diseases like Alzheimer's, last night's tamales, traumatic events in the present, never-healed wounds from the past that a recent event has unmasked, and ...More…
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How to Cope with Grief and Sleep Alone
Reader's Digest — Grief is hard. There is no easy way to move through it. Most of us will lose someone we love, will feel bruised right down to our soul. We'll feel worry, fear, sadness, guilt, anger, frustration, confusion, and loneliness. Some psychologists say ...More…
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Beat Nighttime Pain
Reader's Digest — Pain not only interferes with your ability to get a good night's sleep, it actually disrupts the sleep you do get by encouraging your brain to wake you up throughout the night. That's because pain and sleep share common biological pathways, says . ...More…
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How to Manage Sleep Apnea
Reader's Digest — For those who can use it, PAP (positive airway pressure) therapy is the best fix. Continuous, or CPAP, is a common type. Apnea is a form of sleep disordered breathing (SDB), which causes the airway to collapse partially or fully; pressure ...More…
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Best Remedies for Insomnia
Reader's Digest — There's more to insomnia than just trouble falling asleep. Some people fall asleep just fine but wake up in the middle of the night and can't get back to sleep. Others sleep through the night but wake too early in the morning. And still others ...More…
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Less Sleep, More Energy
Reader's Digest — Patricia Prattis Jennings, 63, first took Provigil during a 2003 trip to Europe. Her doctor thought the drug -- meant to help users suffering from a lack of sleep stay awake without jittery side effects -- might counteract the jet lag that had ...More…