Understanding Insomnia

Among our staff, the experienced clinical insomniacs at Self Guide Services can help you guide yourself to relief from insomnia, proper pro tips for dealing with its side effects, and long term strategies for people living with insomnia, depression, and mania.

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Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez received the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature for his 1967 novel Cien Años de Soledad, the third chapter of which is dedicated to insomnia, as a Guajiran native american named Visitation leaves her native La Guajira due to an outbreak of insomnia there, only to transplant to the village Macondo, where an outbreak of insomnia begins when a baby falls ill to it, and the townspeople ignore Visitation’s warnings of its contagiousness.

“…No one understood Visitation’s worry. ‘If we never have to sleep again, good,’ José Arcadio Buendía would say, in high spirits. ‘Then we’ll get more out of life!’ But the native woman explained to them that the worst symptom of insomnia was not the inability to sleep, since the body didn’t feel even the slightest wear but, rather, its unavoidable evolution towards a most critical symptom: amnesia. She meant to say that, when the insomniac would become accustomed to his state of wakeful vigilance, his memories of childhood would become wiped clean into a blank slate, as would later his name, how he understood objects and, finally, people’s identities, even his notion of self, until he was submerged in a sort of pastless idiocy…” (translation by Matt Longabaugh)

Book a session with Self Guide Services to begin to free yourself from this most tragic condition.