Until three years ago she suddenly couldn’t sleep a wink anymore. “I had just started my first ‘grown-up job’, and I really wanted to do it well.” She then took the pressure she put on herself home and to bed after work. “I was so worried that I kept myself awake.” She kept that up for a while, until the physical complaints piled up. “I even became afraid of the night, because I dreaded not being able to sleep. So I ended up in a vicious circle.”
Three years of barely sleeping drove Bernadette (28) to despair: ‘Always on, sleep is an underrated friend’
