Stress can significantly impact your sleep, as well as your health overall. While lowering the amount of stress in your life is not always possible, try to reframe the stress to make it more manageable. Breathing exercises, connecting with other people, and time management can all help reduce stress. This can be a fairly cost-effective method, assuming you don't have to give up a source of income in order to lower your stress. Working to reframe your stressful thoughts can also help lower the stress in your life. For instance, instead of saying to yourself “I only got 6 hours of work done today,” say “I am proud that I got 6 hours of work done, and I accomplished a lot in that time.” While there are strategies for dealing with stress on your own, if anxiety or depression are impacting your life in detrimental ways, including interrupting your sleep, you may need to see a mental health professional. They can teach you techniques that you will be able to use long term and help you decide if you need medication. While this is often not the cheapest method of dealing with sleep problems, it can be cost effective if it helps you address the root of the problem rather than just dealing with the symptoms. Frequent urination, trouble breathing, and chronic pain can all negatively impact your sleep. Your doctor may be able to recommend some home treatment as well as focus on treating the underlying issues that are causing you to have sleep issues. If you have a chronic condition that is affecting your sleep, the costs can vary widely, depending on the condition, the severity, and the treatment plan. Medications can often have side effects that affect your sleep. If it is a medicine you take long term, be sure to see a doctor to see what you might do, such as adjusting the dosage, changing the time you take it, or trying some other home remedies to alleviate the side effects. Again, assuming that you don't have to change from a less expensive medicine to a more expensive medicine, this may be a cost-effective strategy for dealing with sleep problems. Aging will affect the sleep cycle, and it might be necessary to make adjustments to your lifestyle to help with sleeplessness or other sleep issues. Talking to a doctor will help you make the right decisions for your body, your lifestyle, and your overall health. There are support groups available for many common sleep problems, including sleep apnea and insomnia. A support group can help reassure you that you are not alone and help you find resources you may not have known about. Sharing common experiences can also lead to less anxiety, and may help with sleep as well. This can be an inexpensive way to deal with sleep issues, as support groups are often free to attend.
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One-sentence summary -- Work to address or lower stress in your life. Address anxiety or depression. Talk to your doctor about chronic medical conditions. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist about your current medications. Talk to your doctor about the effects of aging. Find a support group.

Q: If you notice wrinkles in your silk garment, there are a few ways that you can remove the wrinkles without exposing your garment to high heat. If your silk garment only has minor wrinkles, use a plastic clothes hanger to hang the garment, making sure that the garment is hanging completely straight and isn’t folded over on itself. Keep it hanging overnight and see if the wrinkles are gone in the morning. If simply hanging the garment overnight didn’t straighten out the wrinkles, keep the garment on the hanger and hang it from the towel rack in the bathroom while you are taking a shower. The indirect heat from the shower is a gentle way of straightening out wrinkles. If you didn’t succeed in getting out stubborn wrinkles, check the garment tag to see if it can be ironed. If so, dampen the silk garment in the sink and turn it inside out. Turn the iron onto the cool “silk” setting, then iron gently. Make sure to use a cool iron setting, because the hot setting can pucker or even burn the silk.
A: Hang the garment overnight. Hang the garment in the bathroom during a shower. Iron the garment on the “silk” setting.

Article: Pour 1/2 cup (120 ml) of soy sauce, 1/2 cup (120 ml) of rice vinegar, and 1/4 cup plus 4 teaspoons (64 g) of sugar into a small saucepan. If you don't want to use rice vinegar, you can substitute dry sherry, sweet marsala wine, or dry white wine. Turn the heat on to low and stir the sauce until the sugar dissolves. Let the sauce bubble gently and simmer it until it's as thick as you want it to be. For example, for a thin sauce, turn off the heat as soon as the sugar dissolves. For a thicker sauce, simmer it for 10 to 20 minutes. Let the eel sauce cool completely before you pour it into a squirt bottle or storage container. Drizzle the eel sauce over your favorite sushi, cooked noodles, or grilled meats. Store the eel sauce in the refrigerator and use it within 5 days.
Question: What is a summary of what this article is about?
Measure the ingredients into a pan. Stir and simmer the sauce. Cool and use the sauce.