As per a report by the Economic and Social Research Council, 1 in every 10 individual takes sleeping pills on a regular basis. Infact if numbers are to believed, the NHS ended up issuing a staggering 15.3 million prescriptions related to sleep medication in 2011, which just goes to give an indication of how rampant the problem of insomnia has become. Modern lifestyles and increasing stress have compounded the problem of insomnia making it one of the most treated medical problems in the world.
As problems related to sleep have grown so have the number of research and surveys related to insomnia and its possible solutions, behavioral and medical. According to a Nuffield Health report adults in UK "miss out" on approximately 378 million hours of sleep in a week. Most of the respondents in the survey reported averaging 7.1 hours of sleep a night, much lesser than the eight hours recommended for adults. This lack of enough sleep fuels a vicious circle, the notion that our body might not be getting enough sleep leads to more anxiety causing even more sleeplessness.
It turns out our overactive racing mind is the biggest cause of sleeplessness. Replaying the day’s events in our mind or worrying about what tomorrow might hold often cause us to lie awake as is the thought of using the bathroom at night?People suffer from varying degrees of insomnia, some might suffer from acute long term sleeplessness which usually indicates some underlying psychological or medical problem, and others have short term sleeping problems mostly brought about by some recent stressful event in their lives.
Lack of sleep affects us in different ways and is not so easily visible as a medical problem. The problem with poor sleep is not how we spend the night; it has much more to do with how it impacts us during the day, both on a physical and emotional level. Sustained lack of sleep causes helplessness, fatigue, inability to concentrate on any one activity for a long time and most importantly relationship issues leading to the problem of feeling alone and depressed.
When sleep problems are short term related to a recent event, it is possible to treat them with sleeping pills till the body had recovered enough to deal with the grief or stress on its own. While sleeping pills are not a cure for the underlying cause of your sleeping problems, they help the body get much needed rest.
However long term sleep problem needs a deeper diagnosis and a solution that is broader based than simply popping sleeping pills. Prescription sleeping pills help people suffering from insomnia to either fall asleep easier or stay asleep longer and sometimes both. However sleeping pills are not recommended to be taken over a long term due to the potential side effects related to taking pills on a regular basis. They are also not recommended in case you are already undertaking treatment for certain medical problems.
As problems related to sleep have grown so have the number of research and surveys related to insomnia and its possible solutions, behavioral and medical. According to a Nuffield Health report adults in UK "miss out" on approximately 378 million hours of sleep in a week. Most of the respondents in the survey reported averaging 7.1 hours of sleep a night, much lesser than the eight hours recommended for adults. This lack of enough sleep fuels a vicious circle, the notion that our body might not be getting enough sleep leads to more anxiety causing even more sleeplessness.
It turns out our overactive racing mind is the biggest cause of sleeplessness. Replaying the day’s events in our mind or worrying about what tomorrow might hold often cause us to lie awake as is the thought of using the bathroom at night?People suffer from varying degrees of insomnia, some might suffer from acute long term sleeplessness which usually indicates some underlying psychological or medical problem, and others have short term sleeping problems mostly brought about by some recent stressful event in their lives.
Lack of sleep affects us in different ways and is not so easily visible as a medical problem. The problem with poor sleep is not how we spend the night; it has much more to do with how it impacts us during the day, both on a physical and emotional level. Sustained lack of sleep causes helplessness, fatigue, inability to concentrate on any one activity for a long time and most importantly relationship issues leading to the problem of feeling alone and depressed.
When sleep problems are short term related to a recent event, it is possible to treat them with sleeping pills till the body had recovered enough to deal with the grief or stress on its own. While sleeping pills are not a cure for the underlying cause of your sleeping problems, they help the body get much needed rest.
However long term sleep problem needs a deeper diagnosis and a solution that is broader based than simply popping sleeping pills. Prescription sleeping pills help people suffering from insomnia to either fall asleep easier or stay asleep longer and sometimes both. However sleeping pills are not recommended to be taken over a long term due to the potential side effects related to taking pills on a regular basis. They are also not recommended in case you are already undertaking treatment for certain medical problems.
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