![]() ![]() Many medications have stimulants in them. Nicotine also keeps people awake, and smokers may take longer to fall asleep than non-smokers. If you have coffee in the evening, your sleep will be less restful, even if it does not keep you from falling asleep. Lifestyle StimulantsĬaffeine keeps people awake. They may drift off on the couch, while reading the newspaper, watching television or driving.Įven a few nights of poor sleep during a month can trigger psychophysiological insomnia. ![]() Some people with psychophysiological insomnia may fall asleep quickly when they are not in bed. Changing into your night clothes and turning off the lights will suddenly make you wide awake. This usually makes things worse.Īfter a few nights, some of the things you do to get ready for bed may remind you of your trouble sleeping. You may decide to try harder to sleep at night. If you sleep poorly during times of stress, you may worry about not being able to function well during the day. Learning to deal with stress may help treat your insomnia. Relationship problems, a child with a serious illness or an unrewarding job may contribute to sleep problems. Knowing that you are likely to get insomnia, and that it will not last too long can be helpful in dealing with it when it happens. Other people respond to stress by getting a headache or stomach ache. Some people seem more likely than others to have insomnia during times of stress. Psychological Factors Tendency to insomnia It can be caused by any of a number of factors. Insomnia is a symptom of another problem. A lack of sleep may also make us more vulnerable to high blood pressure, obesity and This can be very dangerous if you are driving or operating heavy machinery. However, after several sleepless nights, you will start to find that: The occasional night without sleep will make you feel tired the next day, but it will not harm your physical or mental health. Older people also often find that their sleep at night is broken, particularly if they take naps during the daytime. We also tend to dream less as we get older. Older people need the same amount of sleep, but will often only have one period of deep sleep during the night - usually in the first three or four hours, after which they wake more easily. Most middle-aged people function best on seven to nine hours of sleep, though some do well with as little as four hours, while others need up to 11 hours.Older children require nine or 10 hours per day.Sleep requirements change during the course of a lifetime. There is no ‘normal’ amount of sleep more importantly, it is how well you sleep, not how long your sleep is. We are more likely to remember them if we feel anxious or if there is something else going on - noises outside, our partner snoring etc. These last one or two minutes and happen every two hours or so. We move between REM and non-REM sleep about five times throughout the night, dreaming more as we get towards the morning.ĭuring a normal night, we will also have short periods of waking. During REM sleep, our brain is very active, our muscles are very relaxed, our eyes move quickly from side to side and we dream. It comes and goes throughout the night and makes up about onefifth of our sleep time. Hormones are released into the bloodstream and our body repairs itself after the wear and tear of the day. The brain is quiet, but the body may move around. It is the regular period in every 24 hours when we are unconscious and unaware of our surroundings. Sleep is essential for health providing rest and restoration for the mind and body. ![]() You should consider seeking medical advice if your sleep has been disturbed at least several times over the past month, has gone on for weeks and months, or if it interferes with the way you feel or function during the day. Chronic insomnia, though, lasts for more than a month. It can be transient or chronic.Įveryone has a rough night or two, or short-term (transient) insomnia. For others, it is waking up too early in the morning and/or experiencing unrefreshing sleep. Insomnia is the complaint of inadequate or poor quality sleep that interferes with normal daytime functioning.įor some people, insomnia means difficulty in falling asleep or waking up frequently during the night with problems getting back to sleep. ![]()
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