Lack of sleep

Archive for the ‘Symptoms’ Category

Sleep is crucial to feel your best, look your best and perform at your best — every day. A lack of sleep can result in various problems, including decreased productivity, creativity and focus. However,  a continuous lack of sleep can lead to more serious health issues.

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 »

Sometimes lack of sleep is an illness by itself. At other times though, lack of sleep is a symptom of something else more serious, of one of the byproducts of our modern lifestyle, called nervous tension, or stress.

In today’s society, we are constantly pressured to get from one place to another. Or sometimes we are asked to accept more responsibility than we feel physically or mentally capable of handling. Anxiety or the stress of an unpleasant situation at home or work can put us on edge so we experience lack of sleep at night. Even if we are not confronted by these problems, a barking dog or wailing siren may produce just enough noise to keep us from enjoying a sound, energy-restoring sleep. Read the rest of this entry »

100 million Americans suffer from a lack of sleep each year.

Sleep & Your Mental Health

1 new study published in Scientific America found that a lack of sleep can actually cause psychiatric symptoms and disorders. Do you have a mental illness or just a lack of sleep? Lack of sleep can cause emotional problems, irritability, depression, hallucination (dreaming while awake) and paranoia (as in schizophrenia), emotions instability (such as bipolar and personality disorders).