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 - Types of Insomnia - Although there are several different degrees of insomnia, about three types of insomnia have been clearly identified: transient, acute, and chronic.

1. Transient insomnia lasts from days to weeks. It can be caused by another disorder, by changes in the sleep environment, by the timing of sleep, or by stress. Its consequences - sleepiness and
impaired psychomotor performance - are similar to those of sleep deprivation. If this form of insomnia continues to occur from time to time, the insomnia is classified as intermittent.
2. Acute insomnia is the inability to consistently sleep well for a period of between three weeks to six months.
3. Chronic insomnia lasts for years at a time. It can be caused by another disorder, or it can be a primary disorder. Its effects can vary according to its causes. They might include sleepiness, muscular fatigue, hallucinations, and/or mental fatigue; but people with chronic insomnia often show increased alertness. Some people that live with this disorder see things as though they were happening in slow motion, whereas moving objects seem to blend together.

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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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Insomnia - The various passages cited above prove and illustrate that no author has written so feelingly, so appreciatingly, as Shakespeare on the subject of sleep and its loss.

The diligent commentators on his works have investigated laboriously the sources from which he drew his plots and many of the very lines of his poems. He was a great borrower; absorbing, digesting, and making his own much of the material of his predecessors. But it is a noteworthy fact, that none of the exquisite lines in praise of sleep--that gift which the Psalmist says the Lord giveth to his beloved--can be traced to other source than the master. These are jewels of his own; transcripts from his own mournful experience. In middle life he remembered hopelessly
the tranquil sleep of his lost youth, as

"He that is stricken blind cannot forget
The precious treasure of his eyesight lost."

He had suffered from insomnia, and he writes of this, not "as imagination bodies forth the forms of things _unknown_, " but as one who, in words burning with indestructible life, lays open to us the
sombre record of what was experience before it was song; who makes us the sharers of his griefs; who would awaken in the similarly afflicted of all time that compassionate sympathy which goes out to those whose burdens are almost greater than they can bear.

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Resources: Wikipedia, SHAKESPEARE'S INSOMNIA, NHS Direct

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