Like many of us, I'm sure at some point we all have are difficult moments of trying, but failing at trying to fall asleep at night. I have battled insomnia for a long time, have I particularly overcome it I'm not to sure. There are days where I can fall asleep real easy, but then there will be serious times, probably about twice a month where I can go as much as six to seven days without sleep. Not without consequences unfortunately. Stress, depression, traumatic experiences, medications, diet pills, environment are just a few of the causes that lead to insomnia. I do have stress, I can't remember a time where I haven't NOT felt any stress in my life, I battled with depression for years, and I'm still battling with it now, the environment I was living in before I moved out was horrible so everything kept piling up and insomnia would often be the case. Since I would also have fear of sleeping, since my dreams often lead to nightmares.
Some of the ways I have heard to solve sleeping problems is to change the room a person is sleeping in around, exercising more, eating better, avoid naps, and drink that much caffeine. Problem is for me is that I change my room around every week, I exercise a lot. I eat healthy, but I could try to eat more, I don't have time for naps, and I don't drink any caffeine either so sometimes I have to resort to sleeping aids that my doctor prescribed for me to take.
I read this article from HelpGuide that talks a lot about insomnia, and I thought you guys might like to read it.
can't sleep?
What insomnia is exactly, its the inability to fall asleep for a length of time. If you have any symptoms of insomnia seek medical attention, because it can also lead to some serious damage to your body.
Insomnia Damages in Following Ways:
1. Memory Loss: .
Lack of sleep prevents to do such things and causes of weekend of
memory. Insomnia causes to lose of this power of retaining information
with 44%.
2. Intellectual Loss: Lack of sleep no doubt damages
the memory but with memory loss it also causes to cerebral loss. When
one individual feels drowsiness, memory loss and deadening than its
obvious lack of intellectual power.
3. Physical Loss: Insomnia can damage the body with
negative effect on coordination, motor functions and other body
function. Lack of sleep reduced endurance and cardiovascular
performance.
4. Depression: Depression and insomnia follow each
other frequently. Some researches show that inability to get good night
sleep can develop the depression. Insomnia has several symptoms of
damage including the following.
• Increasing Irritation
• Lack of concentration
• Reduced interest in sex
• Unwanted and unexplained weight loss
• Weekend immune system
• Increase negativity
• Feelings of helplessness
damages of insomnia
4 comments:
I have difficulty sleeping but not to the extent of days on end. My mood is changed on the days that I have not slept well. My biggest sleep problem is very little hours of sleep daily. I sleep about 4 -6 hours throughout the week with no time to catch up. This semester has me runnign ragged! If I go days of very little sleep I get very irritable and get migraines. I don't take OTC spleeping pills but I understand it can make the problem worse if taken regularly. Sorry to hear you have trouble sleeping, I can only imagine how that makes you feel. Have you tried breathing exercises, autogenics or doing puzzles? Those help me when I have a hard time falling to sleep
I'm sorry to hear about your sleeping problems. That sounds like a really terrible thing to deal with. My mother takes over-the-counter sleeping pills every night. She swears by them and she says that her doctor told her that she won't become addicted to the specific ones she takes. Luckily, I don't have to deal with that.
Every once in a while, there'll be a period of a few days where it'll take me hours to fall asleep. Then, if I manage to, I'll wake up and not be able to go back to sleep. I usually find that making the room or house colder helps. I don't known if you've ever tried that.
I never knew that insomnia could have such serious consequences. I always just assumed that it was something annoying to deal with. I guess I just didn't make the connection that it could lead to some pretty big health issues.
I would hate to have insomnia, it must be horrible. I love sleeping and im sure I do too much of it sometimes. I dont think I could go several days without it. But there are sometimes where I am really stressed and thinking to much that I am tossing and turing for hours. Sometimes I dont even know if im falling asleep for just a couple of minutes and waking up and I hate it.
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