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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Sleep Deprivation - However, doctors are usually reluctant to prescribe this type of medication as they relieve symptoms but do not treat the cause of sleeplessness. If you experience long-term insomnia, sleeping tablets are unlikely to help and your doctor may consider referring you to a clinical psychologist to discuss other approaches to treatment.

Short-acting benzodiazepines or the newer hypnotic 'Z medicines' are the current preferred medicines for insomnia and are only available on prescription.

Benzodiazepines are tranquillisers and are designed to reduce anxiety and promote calmness, relaxation and sleep. They work by slowing the body down. These medicines should only be considered if your insomnia is severe or causing you extreme distress. All Benzodiazepines have hypnotic effects and can lead to a dependency. If they are to be used to treat insomnia then only the
short-acting benzodiazepines should be prescribed:

* Temazepam
* Loprazolam
* Lormetazepam

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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 - 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

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