Insomnia - Knowing the facts and the symptoms
Knowing the symptoms, facts and causes of Insomnia sleep disorders
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Insomnia – Is common sleep disorder,
this can be happen when people have difficulties to sleep or to stay sleep
eventhough they want to, usually the symtomps followed by body functional disorders.
A. Facts
Psychological problem
Insomnia usually caused by some disease or
caused by psychological problem, in this case the patient need medical treatment,
one of the effective treatment to cure
insomnia is conducting cognitive therapy.
In cognitive therapy, the patient will be taught to improve right
sleeping habit and to eliminate counter-produtive assumption about sleep.
Sleeping pils
Many people who suffer from insomnia are
dependent on the sleeping pills or others sedative substances to be able to
sleep without knowing that kind of subtances could lead to psychological
assumption that they can't sleep without taking it.
B. Diagnose
There are soo many
misconception in diagnosing insomnia, sometimes delayed sleep phase syndrome is
mistakenly considered as insomnia, in fact these are totally two diffrents
things. In order to achieved proper medical dignose and treatment, patient should
seek help to competent medical service.
Factors that in diagnose
In diagnosing insomnia, it should take into account several factors which is included:
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Sleep
patterns of the patient
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The use of
certain medication
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Stress
levels
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Medical
history
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Physical
activity
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Consumption
of alcohol and drugs
Those are several factors that affecting the patient, each factor should be
examined deeply in order to understand
the real cause of the insomnia so that the medical treatment could be done
correctly.
C. Cause
Insomnia is not a disease,
but it is symptom that caused by several factors and lead to some disorders emotionally,
physically. It can occur to any ages of people both young and elder. Sometimes
the symptoms arise in conjunction with emotional
disorders, such as anxiety,
restlessness, depression or fear, even sometimes the cause is
just simply because the body and the brain are not even tire to sleep.
Changes in sleeping patterns
By the age increased, sleeping time will more likely to be decreased, and
also sleep stadium is likely to be shorter, this will cause the exhausted feeling
even after good amount of sleeping time.
People at elderly ages seem to experience condition where they suddenly
awake in the middle of sleeping in the night. Some people might sleep normally,
awake after couple hours of sleep, and find difficulties to continue their
sleep afterwards.
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Categories:
insomnia,
sleep disorder
