John Corbett · Consulting Psychologist

Sleep Apnea in Women: The Symptoms That Are Different, the Diagnoses That Are Wrong, and What to Do About It By John Corbett | Psychologist | Hong Kong There is a version of sleep apnea that most people recognise. The overweight middle-aged man who snores loudly. Who stops breathing in ways his partner notices. Who wakes gasping. Who is demonstrably, obviously exhausted during the day. Whose condition, when it is eventually investigated, turns out to be exactly what it looked

Insomnia in Hong Kong: What It Actually Is, Why Generic Sleep Advice Doesn't Fix It, and What Does By John Corbett | Psychologist | Hong Kong Most people who come to me with insomnia have already tried everything. The sleep hygiene checklist. The no-screens-before-bed rule. The magnesium supplement and the chamomile tea and the white noise machine. The blackout curtains. The consistent bedtime that lasted three weeks before the schedule collapsed. The melatonin, which helped

By John Corbett | Psychologist | Hong Kong Most people who snore don't know they snore. Not with any real accuracy, anyway. They might have been told by a partner, or half-remembered a comment made in passing. They might have noticed they wake with a dry mouth or a dull headache that clears by mid-morning. But the sound itself — the reliable, nightly disruption that their body is producing while unconscious — they have never actually heard. And because they haven't heard it,

By John Corbett | Psychologist | Hong Kong You probably don't think much about your dreams. Most professionals don't. Dreams feel peripheral — the strange, forgettable fragments that occasionally surface as you're reaching for your phone in the morning, dissolving before you can quite hold them. Interesting, maybe. Meaningful, possibly. But not exactly a professional concern. I want to make a case that this is a mistake. Not because your dreams contain hidden messages that ne

Sleep Apnea in Hong Kong: What It Is, What It Costs, and Why So Many Professionals Don't Know They Have It By John Corbett | Psychologist | Hong Kong You go to bed. You sleep. You wake up eight hours later. And you feel terrible. Not the ordinary tiredness of a late night or a disrupted sleep. Something more persistent. The kind of tiredness that rest doesn't seem to touch. The mid-morning fog. The afternoon wall. The coffee that helps for an hour and then doesn't. The sense