If you are a front-line worker, there are obvious challenges and stressors you are now facing on a daily basis that you weren’t before. So it makes complete sense that less-than-stellar sleep (not to mention crazy stress dreams) would be a big issue for lots of people right now. “The two main contributors to potential worsening of sleep are changes in stress levels and changes in sleep behaviors,” she explains. Rachel Manber, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Director of the Stanford Sleep Health and Insomnia Program (SHIP), this is definitely no coincidence. Raise your hand if you’ve had a big change in your daily routine and have felt more stressed since the pandemic started. My sleep has been awful since the pandemic started. So whether you’re currently recovering from COVID-19 or you just want to get your sleep hygiene back on track after staring at screens for 12 hours, read on for tips to get more quality z’s in the time of corona. There’s even a term for it: coronasomnia. We’ve learned the hard way that COVID-19 and sleep don’t exactly go hand-in-hand. (Well, sometimes.) Now, everything has changed-including our sleep patterns. The good old days, when we went to restaurants with friends without having a panic attack, we could casually chat with our co-workers at the coffee machine in the office kitchen, and we were getting eight hours of glorious sleep every night.

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