Hi there, it's Matt here and welcome back to the show and thanks again for tuning in and listening to these.

Now in the last episode we spoke about the diagnosis of insomnia.

But let's take a step back for a second and let's ask a more fundamental prelude question.

How on earth do you find yourself arriving at the destination of this thing called insomnia.

Well, that is the topic of today's episode.

Why does someone develop insomnia?

And then second, when they do develop it, when insomnia has sort of

taken root as it were, what makes things even worse? In other words, what is adding petrol or what you'd say in America,

what is adding gasoline fuel to the sleep disorder fire of insomnia and only making it rage more powerfully.

These are very too complex questions, but thankfully and through lots of great science and wonderful great scientists,

we do now have a conceptual model explaining how it is that you may find yourself falling into the pit of insomnia as it were.

And this conceptual model involves a stepping stone chain of events that has you sort of

tumbling down into the disorder of insomnia.

And when I say stepping stone, what I mean is that there is a three-part sort of knock-on cascade that leads to insomnia.

And the model is actually called the Three Peas model.

And those three peas are the following.

Number one, predisposing factors., 2 precipitating factors, and finally number 3 perpetuating factors.

I know I bet you feel utterly confused because all of those three P words sound

near identical to each other and it's easy to get lost in the fact that they all sound very similar

so let me unpack it and see if I can add some

disambiguating clarity to the 3P model this predisposing. This means that you are someone who is more innately prone or more

liable as it were, or perhaps a better word is more vulnerable to insomnia to begin with.

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