Notebook Week 7-2f:

Dear Julie Mazziotta and Stephanie Pfeffer,

I would respectfully disagree with the points made in an article about Leslie Stephens. In this

article you mention that insomnia is often caused by anxiety and stress. You also mention that

anxiety affects sleep and can make insomnia worse. While I do agree with these statements, I

feel that you have undermined many anxiety cases. In this story, Leslie Stephens felt that her

anxiety was lessened by getting a good amount of sleep. She also talked about how she worked

on getting at least six hours of sleep and then worked her way up. I do think that a good amount

of sleep can improve anxiety. However, anxiety can only be assessed by a case to case basis. I

would just ask that you be more considerate in the way that you address anxiety and mental

illness. Anxiety can make individuals sleep too much or not be able to sleep at all. While some

people may be able to simply change their night time routine and be able to sleep better, this

doesn’t apply to most people that deal with anxiety on a day to day basis. Anxiety can have

somewhat severe consequences. I would ask that if you want to share this story on how to help

with insomnia, you would use the word stress instead of anxiety. These tips may help people that

are dealing with some stress in their life. However, I think that anxiety is not so easily fixed.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Sincerely,

Brynlee Funk
 Work Cited:

Mazziotta, Julie, and Stephanie Emma Pfeffer. “We Cut Half Our Stress!” People, vol. 93, no. 2,

Jan. 2020, p. 73. EBSCOhost,

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