What Is Insommia?
Insommia is difficulty in falling alseep or staying alseep, but
there is help to prevent this condition.
Have you ever complained about inadequate sleep? You may be
suffering from insommia. Insommia is difficulty in falling alseep,
waking up frequently during the night and difficulty in returning
to sleep, waking too early in the morning or unrefreshing
sleep.
Insommia is not defined as the number of hours of sleep one gets.
The reason for this is that many people need different amount of
sleep.
During the day a person who sufferes from insommia may have any of
the traits. They are tiredness, or a lack of energy, or a
difficulity in concentrating and or irritability.
There are three stages of insommia. They are TRANSIENT INSOMMIA,
CHRONIC INSOMMIA and INTERMITTENT INSOMMIA.
Transient insommia is also called short term insommia, intermittent
insommia is also called on and off and chronic insommia is called
constant.
Insommia lasting from a single night to a few weeks is refererred
to as transient. If an episode of transient insommia occurs from
time to time it is said to be transient. Insommia is considered to
be chronic if it occurs on most night and lasts for a month or
more.
People more likely to experience insommia are those in advanced
years, those of the female gender, those with a history of
depression.
Transient insommia occurs in people who are temporaily experiencing
1 or more of these conditions: stress, noise, hot or cold
temperature changes, jet lag and side effects from medications.
Chronic insommia is mainly due to depression, misuse of caffeine
and alcohol or shift work.
Insommia is found in both male and female. But in females in the
menopause years it is most common.
Insommia is diagnosed with a medical history and a sleeping log. A
sleeping can be done through journal entries, telling the time you
went to bed and the number of times you awaken during the
night.
Insommia is treated differently depending on the stage.
Transient and intermittent may not require treatment. Chronic is
different. The reason it is different is because the underlying
cause must first be found.
The ways to avoid insommia are
1) don't go to bed until sleepy
2) don't use the bed for anything else but sleeping ie, no eating
or watching TV.
3) if you don't fall asleep within 15 minutes get up and do
something else.
4) don't take naps during the day and finally
5) avoids alcohol and caffeine before bed.
