Insomnia Psychiatrist Serving Waterbury, CT

You fall asleep fine. That's the part that makes it confusing. Your head hits the pillow, you drift off — and then, somewhere around 2am or 3am, you're just awake. Wide awake. And no matter what you do, you can't get back. You lie there watching the minutes tick past, knowing you have to be up in a few hours, and the more you try to force it, the more awake you feel. This is sleep maintenance insomnia — and it's one of the most common forms that brings people in. Sindhia Shyras, APRN works with Waterbury adults through telehealth and in person from her New Britain office.

Why Waking at 2am Is Its Own Problem

Sleep maintenance insomnia often gets dismissed — by other people and sometimes even by the person experiencing it — because at least you're falling asleep. But the middle-of-the-night waking is its own pattern with its own drivers. For a lot of people it's connected to stress hormones that spike too early in the morning cycle, or to an underlying anxiety that quiets at bedtime but re-emerges a few hours in. Others notice it worsens around particular life stressors. Understanding what's triggering the wake-up — not just addressing the sleeplessness itself — is how you actually solve it rather than mask it.

What Sindhia Can Do About It

The first appointment is a full psychiatric evaluation — your sleep history, what the wake-ups look like, whether there's anxiety or depression in the background, what your mornings and days feel like. From that picture, Sindhia builds a plan. Some options work quickly. Others change the underlying pattern over a few weeks. She accepts Aetna, Cigna, Husky Health, Medicaid, United Healthcare, Anthem, ConnectiCare, and self-pay — and she follows up with you so the plan actually gets adjusted until it works.

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