“The bed has been the nest and chamber of civilization
temptation of women and children, of rich and poor.
The bed has been the holy sacrament of the moment bigger than me,
I have lived, loved and shared with all men.
“Whoever invented it didn’t even say his name.” JCA
The bed: that place where you feel rested and safe. In which it seems that problems matter less to you because you feel protected from all evils. But what if there comes a time when you’d rather be in bed than out of it? what if being in bed ends up becoming an obsession and affecting your work, social or family life?
At Psychology-Online we want to talk to you about clinomania, an anxiety disorder related to wanting to be in bed above all else. Keep reading to find out what it is, the symptoms, causes, consequences and treatment of clinomania.
What is clinomania
The clinomania either clinophilia it’s a anxiety disorder that involves the need to stay in bed for many hours without an organic need (tiredness or illness) to justify it. It may involve hypersomnia (excess sleep), but not necessarily.
We spend more and more hours in bed and not exactly sleeping. It is common to find televisions in the bedrooms and watch movies or series there until we fall asleep. In addition, we usually take advantage of the time before bed to catch up on social networks, the news, email or a thousand and one other tasks that we can do from our mobile phone. In this article we talk about the.
So how to distinguish clinomania from the simple pleasure of lying down? When is being in bed a problem? If I have a hard time getting out of bed, do I have clinomania? If staying in bed is affecting your family, work and/or social life and you do nothing to change it, you may suffer from clinomania.
There are others .
Symptoms of clinomania
Knowing the symptoms of clinomania can help you identify this disorder. Among them are:
- You went over the board all day in bed Getting up just to go to the bathroom.
- Your moments of leisure revolve around the bed (watching television, reading, lying down, eating in bed…)
- You stop making plans with your family and friends to be in bed.
- Your attention and your needs are focused on what has to do with the bed: pillows, sheets, cushions, mattresses…
- You feel more encouraged when circumstances arise that justify the stay in bedlike a stormy day or a day off from work.
- They make you uncomfortable and/or generate anxietythe circumstances that prevent you from staying in bed, such as responsibilities, sunny days, visits from family and friends…
- When you try to get out of bed it’s hard. As if gravity, weight of your body or a strange force prevents you from doing so.
- When you get into bed you feel an intense feeling of pleasure and wellness.
Causes of clinomania
If you use the bed only for its main function, sleeping, it is less likely that you will develop this disorder. But, logically, there are some circumstances that can reinforce the fact of staying in bed. The factors that favor the development of clinomania are the following:
- Snacking or eating in bed.
- Do activities in bed (reading, drawing, playing).
- Use your mobile phone while you are in bed.
- Have a television in the room.
- And in general, do any activity that you find enjoyable while you are in bed.
Consequences of clinomania
From the outside it may seem that the pleasure of being in bed does not represent any problem. However, when staying in bed is a priority, it can have detrimental consequences on the patient’s life such as:
- Demotivation: You begin to lose motivation for activities that require being out of bed.
- Sadness: You feel sad about your vision of a world devoid of stimulation and pleasure, outside of bed.
- Social isolation: the fact of being in bed prevents you from interacting socially with the corresponding consequences (lack of support, loneliness, etc.)
- Problems at work: Absences from work to stay in bed can lead to consequences such as poor performance or dismissal.
Treatment of clinomania
How is clinomania cured? The most appropriate therapy to treat clinomania, as for the rest of , is . The intervention in this case must include 3 parts:
- Informative: to learn about the disorder, its symptoms and how it develops. This part is called psychoeducation and can be provided by the therapist himself.
- Cognitive: in which the beliefs and values will be identified maladaptive thoughts to change them for more realistic ones.
- Behavioral: which includes identifying what causes and maintains the disorder to change behavior. And the implementation of habits and routines that will make recovery easier and largely avoid the associated problems. As well as a program of pleasant activities that will serve as reinforcement for behaviors incompatible with staying in bed.
Is medication necessary in the treatment of clinomania? On occasions when anxiety is very high, it is possible to resort to psychotropic drugs at the beginning of treatment. Always with the recommendation and under the supervision of a specialist.
This article is merely informative, at Psychology-Online we do not have the power to make a diagnosis or recommend a treatment. We invite you to go to a psychologist to treat your particular case.
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