Morrisroe, Patricia. Wide Awake: A Memoir of Imsomnia. Spiegel and Grau.
No play on words: this combination investigative work and memoir arose from a personal "wake-up" call. After a particularly "bad night," Morrisroe almost was run over by a taxi while after morning coffee. The onetime magazine editor and biographer of controversial artist Robert Mapplethorpe thus set out to find an answer to her insomnia while tracing the history of sleeplessness back to ancient Greece. Much is mentioned about the role of drug companies given that sleeping-pill prescriptions increased by 55 percent during the 21st century's first half-decade. Over eighty sleep disorders are recognized by the medical world even though most physicians receive little or no initial instruction about them during training. Morrisroe's quest does have a happy ending in that after high-priced clinics and therapies she found rest and enlightenment through Qigong, the Chinese system of exercise and meditation.
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