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Insomnia in Eating Disorders

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Sleep and eating are both essential life functions. Dysregulation in either sleep or eating behaviors can result in significant problems with physical and mental health. Insomnia is a common sleep complaint, in which people report difficulty with initiating or maintaining sleep or waking up too early. When these symptoms are frequent, chronic, and associated with daytime dysfunction, then individuals may meet the criteria of insomnia disorder. Despite emerging evidence suggesting that insomnia symptoms and insomnia disorder are elevated in people with eating disorders, there remains much to be learned about the mechanisms underlying the association between insomnia and eating disorder pathology. In this chapter, we provide the reader with an overview of the nature of insomnia disorder in people with eating disorders, potential mechanisms for their co-occurrence, and current evidence-based psychological methods of treating insomnia symptoms. Future directions for research are offered to drive further study, which has implications for how both eating disorders and insomnia symptoms are treated.

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Christensen, K.A., Klaver, E., Short, N.A. (2023). Insomnia in Eating Disorders. In: Patel, V.B., Preedy, V.R. (eds) Eating Disorders. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16691-4_10

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