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Unable to sleep – The Cause

We tend to misinterpret the term “tired” and “sleepy” interchangeably, but actually they are signals for very different things and it is important for us to be able to tell the difference.

Sometimes, a person might feel extremely fatigued but not be ready for sleep or some of us maybe experienced feeling tired but still find difficulties to fall asleep, this condition can be due to various factors.

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Some common things such stress, deadlines, problems can give cause people unable to sleep at night, and it also can be caused by stimulants such as caffeine and nicotine. As stimulant drugs can make it more difficult to reduce arousal and initiate sleep. Caffeine consumption has been shown to result in a longer time to fall asleep.

Insomnia symptoms – Do They Affect Your Sleep?

SLEEP DURATION

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How much sleep do we need every day? It's difficult to determine the sufficient duration of normal sleep is because every individual depends on the age, activity, gender and other things also influence the amount of sleep you need including lifestyle, diet and environment.

Most healthy adults sleep for about seven to nine hours a night. As people get older, it becomes more difficult to maintain that amount. Even there are some conditions that prevent us to get us sufficient amount of sleep, some condition includes insomnia.

The Causes of insomnia - medical condition side

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Insomnia can be caused by several factors, whether it’s because of habits, psychiatric conditions, biological conditions, or because of medical conditions.

It’s really important to identify what is really the cause of insomnia before taking medication or treatment.

Insomnia - Knowing the facts and the symptoms

Knowing the symptoms, facts and causes of Insomnia sleep disorders

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:

· Sleep patterns of the patient

· The use of certain medication

· Stress levels

· Medical history

· Physical activity

· 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.