Sheila Boughey
Sheila is a whirlwind at night and may just sleep the least of all five volunteers.
| Fact title | Fact data |
|---|---|
| Age |
44
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| Occupation |
Local councillor
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| Sleep disorder |
Insomnia
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Sheila has suffered from sleeping issues all her adult life- she finds her brain switches on when she wants to go to sleep.
Her husband, Neil, says her restlessness, and constant tossing and turning, means they can鈥檛 share a bed. He describes her as 鈥榲ery mobile when she sleeps鈥�.
Sheila always plays on her iPad in bed until she is so tired she feels herself drifting off but if she鈥檚 finding it hard to get to sleep she will often give up and head downstairs to bake a cake or play with the dogs. Neil has even come down in the morning and found her asleep in the dog basket.
Result
Although it looks like she has the same issues as insomniac Gwen, Jason and Kirstie found that basically Sheila needs very little sleep to get by. But there were issues with her 鈥楽leep Hygiene鈥�, in other words her bedroom is a playroom full of distracting past times - from iPads to knitting, books to dogs - that keep her mind active when she should be drifting off.
Their treatment started by turning her bedroom into just that a room with a bed, devoid of distractions and their diagnosis that she needs little sleep has reduced her anxiety about her inability to go to sleep when the rest of Britain does.
