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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 - Patterns of Insomnia - The pattern of insomnia often is related to
the etiology.
1. Onset insomnia - difficulty falling asleep at the beginning of the night,
often associated with anxiety disorders.
2. Middle-of-the-Night Insomnia - Insomnia characterized by difficulty returning
to sleep after awakening in the middle of the night or waking too early in the
morning. Also referred to as nocturnal
awakenings. Encompasses middle and terminal insomnia.
3. Middle insomnia - waking during the middle of the night, difficulty
maintaining sleep. Often associated with pain syndromes or medical illness.
4. Terminal (or late) insomnia - early morning waking. Characteristic of
clinical depression.
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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 - Patterns of Insomnia - The pattern of insomnia often is related to
the etiology.
1. Onset insomnia - difficulty falling asleep at the beginning of the night,
often associated with anxiety disorders.
2. Middle-of-the-Night Insomnia - Insomnia characterized by difficulty returning
to sleep after awakening in the middle of the night or waking too early in the
morning. Also referred to as nocturnal
awakenings. Encompasses middle and terminal insomnia.
3. Middle insomnia - waking during the middle of the night, difficulty
maintaining sleep. Often associated with pain syndromes or medical illness.
4. Terminal (or late) insomnia - early morning waking. Characteristic of
clinical depression.
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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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Insomnia - The witch, in "Macbeth, " cataloguing the calamities in store for the
ambitious Thane, says:
"Sleep shall neither night nor day
Hang upon his pent-house lid;
He shall live a man forbid."
It is curious also to remark, in the various lists of griefs which make life a
burden and a sorrow, how often the climax of these woes is the lack of sleep, or
the troubled dreams bearing their train of "gorgons, hydras, and chimeras dire, "
which come with broken rest. Lady Percy says to Hotspur:--
"Why hast thou lost the fresh blood in thy cheeks, And given my treasures and my
rights of thee To thick-eyed musing and curst melancholy? Tell me, sweet lord,
what isn't that takes from thee
Thy stomach, pleasure, and thy golden sleep?"
Macbeth says:--
"But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer,
Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep
In the affliction of these terrible dreams
That shake us nightly; better be with the dead."
In "Othello" is a striking picture of the sudden change, in the direction we are
considering, which comes over a tranquil mind from the commission of a great
crime. Iago says to Othello, after he has
wrought "the deed without a name":--
"Not poppy nor mandragora,
Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world,
Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep
Which thou own'dst yesterday."
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Resources: Wikipedia, SHAKESPEARE'S INSOMNIA, NHS Direct |
