Lack of sleep

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Pretty much everybody can be affected by lack of sleep. However, some recent studies showed that it is more common in women (particularly after menopause) and older men, above the age of 60. It seems that as the older we get, the less we are able to sleep – even when we really want to. Read the rest of this entry »

There is no single cause for lack of sleep. Some people have a chronic illness which causes it and they actually know it, because they are under doctor’s care. However for the rest of us, the ‘regular’ folks, it’s a bit hard to pinpoint it, what is the one thing that causes insomnia. Well, recent research has found that there are at least 5 major triggers that can cause insomnia, and they can be either singular triggers, or a combination of several. Read the rest of this entry »

If you think you might have a sleep disorder, give this self-test a go and find out. At the end of the test, I will reveal your score. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve read recently a short study (wish I remembered where it was) about the relation between lack of sleep, or insomnia, and the rich, vs. the poor.

Although common sense would seem to point out that the poor are mostly suffering from lack of sleep, due to their financial and living problems, the study showed that the situation might be just opposite to this.

It seems that the wealthier a person is, the better chances to become an insomniac.
Apparently it is remarkable how little complains one hears in hospitals from the poorer classes.
One of the results the study came to was that one reason for this poor vs rich shift is that poor are less haunted by such problems as overfeeding, inertia, idleness, self-absorption and ennui.

There is no doubt that ever since the introduction of the industrial revolution, stress has increased tremendously, and sleep has directly proportional decreased with it. But what is lack of sleep? Simply put, lack of sleep is insomnia.

The only difference is that when you think of the term ‘lack of sleep’, you think of overworking, stress, and something that you can catch up on later. When you think of insomnia, on the other hand, you think of a disorder that needs to be treated. However think again, lack of sleep, is insomnia. When you can’t sleep, when you can’t get enough sleep,  you have a lack of sleep, or insomnia. Both are a condition in which you are not able to sleep properly, where you have a hard time falling asleep and also have difficulty in remaining asleep.

So now that you know that insomnia is simply lack of sleep, maybe you start treating it less as a disease and more as something that you can do about it rather easily. You will see that lack of sleep is more a bad habit than anything else. The fact that you cannot fall asleep is the result of several things that either you shouldn’t be doing that you’re doing, or vice versa, you should be doing which you don’t.
Some of the questions people ask related to lack of sleep are: does lack of sleep make me fat? what are the symptoms of insomnia? will I die from lack of sleep? Does lack of sleep cause headaches? Can I cure my lack of sleep? We will discuss all these and more on this site.