Insomnia Stories - Issue 7
This week’s Insomnia Story comes from The Observer. The subject is a young girl named Elsa with major sleeping problems. At only 13 she suffers from chronic insomnia. Read the excerpt below and find the rest here:
“It’s 7.20am. I’m under the duvet, my eyes in some sort of trance between open and closed. I’m sort of suffocating, actually; there are only so many times you can recycle air while you have a duvet over your head. I know that the minute I pull it back I have given in. It will be my way of saying: ‘Fine. You win. I’ll get up. I’ll accept that I have had a maximum of… no sleep.’ I pull back the duvet. I use all my remaining will to push myself up on my feet. Where I’m going to find some more strength to get me through the day is a mystery.”
