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Understanding Insomnia
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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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Sleep
Deprivation - A common misperception is that the amount of sleep a person
requires decreases as he or she ages. The ability to sleep for long periods,
rather than the need for sleep, appears to be lost as people get older. Some
elderly insomniacs toss and turn in bed and occasionally fall off the bed at
night, diminishing the amount of sleep they receive.
An overactive mind or physical pain may also be causes. Finding the underlying
cause of insomnia is usually necessary to cure it. Insomnia can be common after
the loss of a loved one, even years or decades after the death, if they have not
gone through the grieving process. Overall, symptoms and the degree of their
severity affect each individual differently depending on their mental health,
physical condition, and attitude or personality.
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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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INSOMNIA
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Sleep
Deprivation - A common misperception is that the amount of sleep a person
requires decreases as he or she ages. The ability to sleep for long periods,
rather than the need for sleep, appears to be lost as people get older. Some
elderly insomniacs toss and turn in bed and occasionally fall off the bed at
night, diminishing the amount of sleep they receive.
An overactive mind or physical pain may also be causes. Finding the underlying
cause of insomnia is usually necessary to cure it. Insomnia can be common after
the loss of a loved one, even years or decades after the death, if they have not
gone through the grieving process. Overall, symptoms and the degree of their
severity affect each individual differently depending on their mental health,
physical condition, and attitude or personality.
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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 - Here we can find the familiar and marvellous soliloquy
of Henry IV.:--
"How many thousand of my poorest subjects
Are at this hour asleep! O Sleep, O gentle Sleep,
Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down
And steep my senses in forgetfulness?
Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs,
Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee,
And hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber,
Than in the perfumed chambers of the great,
Under the canopies of costly state,
And lulled with sounds of sweetest melody?
O thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile
In loathsome beds, and leav'st the kingly couch
A watch-case, or a common 'larum-bell?
Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast
Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains
In cradle of the rude, imperious surge,
And in the visitation of the winds,
Who take the ruffian billows by the top,
Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them
With deafening clamor in the slippery shrouds,
That with the hurly, death itself awakes?
Canst thou, O partial Sleep, give thy repose
To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude,
And in the calmest and most stillest night,
With all appliances and means to boot,
Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down!
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."
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Resources: Wikipedia, SHAKESPEARE'S INSOMNIA, NHS Direct |
