Understanding Insomnia

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Sleep Disorder - Insomnia is a symptom of a sleeping disorder characterized by persistent difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep despite the opportunity. It is typically followed by functional impairment while awake. Insomniacs have been known to complain about being unable to close their eyes or "rest their mind" for more than a few minutes at a time. Both organic and non-organic insomnia constitute a sleep disorder.

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Insomnia - Treatment

The first step is to diagnose any underlying causes and treat the condition. For example, if insomnia is being caused by depression; once the depression is treated, the insomnia will often disappear
without further medical help.

Non-drug treatments are usually the preferred first course of action. These treatments can include:

* Counselling, if the insomnia is related to bereavement or stressful life events etc.

* Cognitive behavioural therapy (altering behaviour and thinking patterns).

* Problem-solving approaches to make you feel in control (for example, keeping a sleep diary).

* Lifestyle advice. This includes restricting caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol; taking regular exercise; keeping regular times for sleeping and waking; maintaining good sleeping environment.

* Education about sleep and relaxation.

Sleeping tablets may be considered:

* if your symptoms are particularly severe;
* to ease short-term insomnia, or
* if the non-drug treatments mentioned above have failed to have an effect.

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Insomnia - Insomnia is the disturbance of a normal sleep pattern. For example, when you cannot get to sleep or wake up after only a few hours sleep. Sleep is a state of consciousnesses, which gives your body time to rest and build up your strength. While you are asleep, your body goes through different stages at approximately 90 minute cycles. These include light sleep, deep sleep and dreaming, also known as rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.

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Difficulties with sleep can appear in a variety of ways:

* Difficulty getting to sleep (sleep onset insomnia). This is most common in young people.

* Waking in the night (frequent nocturnal awakening). This is most common in older people.

* Waking early in the morning - the least common type of sleep disturbance.

* Not feeling refreshed after sleep. You may have trouble functioning normally during the day, feel irritable, tired, and find it difficult to concentrate.

* Waking when you have been disturbed from sleep by pain or noise.

Insomnia can last for days, months or even years and can be split into three categories:

* Transient insomnia lasts for 2-3 days.

* Short-term insomnia lasts for more than a few days but less than 3 weeks.

* Chronic insomnia can be defined as insomnia most nights for 3 weeks or longer.

Chronic insomnia can lead to mental health problems such as depression, or misuse of alcohol or other medicines in order to gain sleep.

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Every individual is different so, it is hard to define what normal sleep is for you. Other factors include your age, lifestyle, diet and environment.

Newborn babies can sleep for 16 hours a day, while children of school age need an average of 10 hours.

Adults usually need, on average, 7 to 9 hours sleep a night. As we get older, it's normal to need less sleep. Most people over 70 need less than 6 hours sleep per night; and they tend to be light sleepers.

It is important to know that nearly everyone has problems sleeping at some time or other and it is thought that a third of people in the UK have bouts of insomnia.

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Sleep Deprivation - The greatest punishment which comes to Macbeth after the murder of Duncan is lack of sleep. Nowhere in the language, in the same space, can be found so many pictures of the blessedness of repose as in the familiar lines:--

"Me thought I heard a voice cry, 'Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep, ' the innocent sleep;
Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great Nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast."

And the principal reason which deters Hamlet from suicide is the fear that even if he does sleep well "after life's fitful fever is over, " still, that sleep may be full of troubled dreams.

"To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause."

Richard III. says, when the catalogue of his crimes is full, and when he "sees as in a map the end of all":--

"The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom,
And Anne, my queen, hath bid the world good night."

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Resources: Wikipedia, SHAKESPEARE'S INSOMNIA, NHS Direct

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