What you believe about sleep shapes how you sleep
Insomnia is held in place partly by the things we come to believe about sleep — about what a bad night costs, about how much control we have. Read each statement and slide to show how much it matches your own thinking. Twenty items, about four minutes.
This is an educational reflection, not a diagnostic test or clinical assessment.
Where your thinking sits
Beliefs like these are workable
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This reflection does not diagnose insomnia or any condition.
The belief domains explored here are informed by the research literature on sleep-related cognitions, including the Dysfunctional Beliefs and Attitudes about Sleep scale. The statements above are original and are not the scale itself.
Morin, C. M., Vallières, A., & Ivers, H. (2007). Dysfunctional Beliefs and Attitudes about Sleep (DBAS): Validation of a brief version (DBAS-16). Sleep, 30(11), 1547–1554.