Sleeplessness
Tags: Sleep, Sleep Disorder Treatment, Sleeplessness, Sleep Disorders, Sleep Disorder Causes

Sleep Disorders

Introduction

Usual troubles in sleep may be on account of travel, illness, and other ordinary interruptions, but if the disorder continues then it might be a sleep disorder.

Many people need six or seven hours of sleep whereas many adults cannot remain fresh if they have not slept for eight hours a day.

Multiple reasons causing difficulty in sleeping regularly is a sleep disorder. Sleep disorders are getting common as in the United States alone, around 75 percent of people of the country aged 20 to 59 are facing sleep disorders.

Symptoms

The symptoms may be that when you wake up you feel like you could not have quality sleep and feel sleepy throughout the day. On a usual basis, it’s normal but if it’s occurring often then you need to take it seriously.

CAUSES

Those reasons which influence our routine badly are common reasons behind sleep disorders. These disorders can be cured easily. Whereas few disorders are related to our health and medication, which can be cured only after visiting a doctor and getting proper medication.

Micro-reasons

There are micro and macro reasons behind sleep disorders. These causes vary like the common cause is late-night activities like watching television, playing games, taking drugs, or doing exercises. Other reasons might be noise disturbances around, too much excitement and uncomfortable bed or bedroom.

Certain medications, stress, depression, frequent urination, and alike stuff also cause disorder in sleep. Night shift works and aging is also micro-factors behind sleep disorders. For instance, almost half of the elderly people of age 65 have sleeping problems,

Macro-reasons

In terms of macro-reasons, insomnia, restless legs syndrome and sleep apnea are mega reasons for sleeplessness in adults.

· Insomnia: When a person faces trouble in falling or staying asleep, he is facing the sleep disorder of insomnia. The condition might be acute (short-term) or chronic (long-term). Acute insomnia lasts for a night to weeks, whereas the chronic one happens at least three nights a week and lasts for more than three months. The causes of insomnia may vary as it has two types; primary and secondary.

· Restless Legs Syndrome: It is also called RLS. In this disorder, one feels the uncontrollable urge to move his legs. He is compelled to do that because he feels an uncomfortable sensation. It is often found in aged people but can be cured with medication.

· Sleep Apnea: In this disorder, breathing repeatedly stops and starts during sleep and this makes Sleep Apnea a serious sleep disorder. Common symptoms of this disorder are loud snoring, awakening with a dry mouth, morning headache, insomnia, hypersomnia, difficulty in focusing, and irritability.

Hypersomnia is a condition in which one feels excessive sleepiness during the day.

Effects

The lack of sleep can cause a loss in weight and an increase in insulin leading to type 2 diabetes. It causes disturbance in life like sleep disorder causes stress, depression, and strain in relations. It also affects our focus, causes frequent headaches, irritability, fatigue, and taking a lot of time for falling asleep. These symptoms affect the children and adults more than the elderly ones, as they are supposed to work and cannot sleep anytime they want to sleep.

Few other very common effects of sleeplessness are as follows;

· Yawning

· Moodiness

· Exhaustion

· Depression

· Anger

· Forgetting the things

· Incapacity to focus

· Reduced sex drive and

· Demotivation

Sleep disorders also affect one’s emotional health as less sleep drives us to go crazy during the daytime and this causes us to lose our night sleep and this cycle causes strain in relations. “Couples who struggle with sleep apnea have a high divorce rate. The lack of sleep for both partners puts a strain on the marriage and creates a hostile and tense situation,” said Cartwright.

Treatment / Solution / Therapy

At times, the rest issue can be a side effect of another clinical or psychological wellness condition. These resting issues may in the long run leave once treatment is acquired for the fundamental reason. At the point when rest issues aren’t brought about by another condition, treatment typically includes a mix of clinical medicines and way of life changes.

Note: Pictures’ courtesy does not belong to the writer.