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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 - Other Substances - Some insomniacs use herbs such as valerian,
chamomile, lavender, hops, and passion-flower. Valerian has undergone multiple
studies and appears to be modestly effective. Cannabis has also been suggested
as a very effective treatment for insomnia. An old wife's tale once suggested
that sucking on a lemon and gurgling water while trying to count backwards from
100 once was thought to cure insomnia.
Though alcohol may have sedative properties, the REM sleep suppressing effects
of the drug prevent restful, quality sleep. Also, middle-of-the-night awakenings
due to polyuria or other effects from alcohol consumption are common, and
hangovers can also lead to morning grogginess.
Insomnia may be a symptom of magnesium deficiency, or low magnesium levels. A
healthy diet containing magnesium, can help to improve sleep in individuals
without an adequate intake of
magnesium.
Other reports cite the use of an elixir of cider vinegar and honey but the
evidence for this is only anecdotal.
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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 - Other Substances - Some insomniacs use herbs such as valerian,
chamomile, lavender, hops, and passion-flower. Valerian has undergone multiple
studies and appears to be modestly effective. Cannabis has also been suggested
as a very effective treatment for insomnia. An old wife's tale once suggested
that sucking on a lemon and gurgling water while trying to count backwards from
100 once was thought to cure insomnia.
Though alcohol may have sedative properties, the REM sleep suppressing effects
of the drug prevent restful, quality sleep. Also, middle-of-the-night awakenings
due to polyuria or other effects from alcohol consumption are common, and
hangovers can also lead to morning grogginess.
Insomnia may be a symptom of magnesium deficiency, or low magnesium levels. A
healthy diet containing magnesium, can help to improve sleep in individuals
without an adequate intake of
magnesium.
Other reports cite the use of an elixir of cider vinegar and honey but the
evidence for this is only anecdotal.
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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 |
