tl;dr
probably not but some people find just knowing that people slept like that can help with anxiety around insomnia.
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I have never really had issues with insomnia before but over the last year I have started to have it. It's like the author describes just snapping awake in the middle of the night. It's really unsettling looking at your phone and seeing you only got 3 or 4 hours of sleep and now you feel like you are ready for the day. I think it's stress related from COVID and the general new anxiety I find in pretty much doing anything. Having to worry about who is going to be mad if I wear a mask. Who is going to be mad if I don't.
I tried to go see the doctor when I had almost two weeks of only getting 14 hours of sleep for the entire week. Unfortunately they couldn't see me for 2 months. So i'm not even sure what my health insurance is paying for. Anyway i was able to sleep again after another week and have felt good with only the occasional insomnia now.
USA based if you couldn't tell. I greatly worry about the mental toll these last years have taken on people and I'm really not surprised that it seems like society is crumbling around us now.