Why High Achievers Can't Sleep: The 4 Mechanisms

→ FIND YOUR INSOMNIA TYPE (free, ~3 minutes) The four mechanisms form four patterns. Which one is yours determines what will actually work. This free assessment maps it, the same diagnostic logic I use in the first few minutes of a clinical assessment, built so you can run it yourself: https://stillnights.typeform.com/to/P... Tired but wired at 1am. Awake and alert at 3am with the mind already running. Or a full night's sleep that still leaves you at 50% the next day. Fog instead of sharpness, irritable instead of present. If you've already tried sleep hygiene, magnesium, melatonin, the meditation apps, maybe a prescription you're not thrilled about, and none of it created reliable sleep, this video explains why. Chronic insomnia isn't a character flaw or a permanent fault in your wiring. It's a learned, mechanical condition, a small set of mechanisms running incorrectly. In this video I walk through the four mechanisms behind long-term insomnia (sleep pressure, circadian timing, conditioned wakefulness, and nervous-system hyperarousal) and the four real-world patterns they form. Almost every generic fix you've been handed was aimed at one mechanism, often the wrong one for you. The combination you're running is the whole game. This is for working professionals and high performers, roughly 35–60, who are used to operating at a high level and can't understand why something as basic as sleep won't come. If that's you, the rest of this channel is built to take your specific pattern apart, mechanism by mechanism. ABOUT I'm Ashwin Whitelaw, an insomnia specialist with nearly a decade of clinical experience and co-author of insomnia treatment research published in SLEEP (Oxford Academic), the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, and the Journal of Sleep Research. This channel teaches the mechanisms behind chronic insomnia clearly enough that you can recognise your own. #Insomnia #ChronicInsomnia #CBTI #SleepClinician #SleepHelp