Sleep Anxiety – taking steps to reduce your anxiety

anxiety sleeping anxiety anxiety and sleep sleep anxiety Nowadays, more than 40 million Americans suffer from sleep disorders, which means that sleep problems become more common and can happen to anyone. There are many kinds of sleep disorders like Insomnia (trouble falling asleep, having hard time trying staying asleep, waking too early in the morning) and sleep apnea (loud snoring caused by an obstructed airway), and as you can guess, sleep disorders can cause sleep anxiety, which is the subject and the reason behind this article. Sleep Anxiety is part of a group of illnesses that contain panic disorder, post-traumatic disorder, social anxiety disorder, general anxiety disorder and panic attacks. All these illnesses are medical conditions, which can be cured with the right treatment.   The Causes of Sleep Anxiety As already mentioned, one of reasons behind sleep anxiety is sleep disorders, but there are a lot of other potential causes: • Stress – According to the Better Sleep Council, sixty five percent of Americans are losing sleep because of stress. When you are stressed, your mind doesn’t stop thinking, and as result – you have problems when you are trying to fall asleep. • Depression – Depression is a medical illness that is identified by consistent feelings of unhappiness or emptiness. These feelings cause a difficulty falling asleep and poor-quality sleep.   The symptoms of Sleep Anxiety People who suffer from sleep anxiety often [...]

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The World of Sleep

sleeplessness Insomnia There are one or two things in life which are certain and unavoidable, one of those things is that we all need to sleep in order to be able to function properly.  It is a fact that you can survive three times as long without food as you can without sleep. As human beings we recognise the importance of a good night’s sleep.  We recognise the importance and we acknowledge how much better we feel after a good night’s sleep, yet often it is so elusive and hard to achieve and even appears to come bottom of the list for many people – almost an added bonus which is great if you can get it!  It is true to say that modern lifestyles seem to almost disregard nature’s way of replenishing and restoring the body which is sleep. A good place to start when talking about sleep is to establish exactly WHAT is sleep.  We should not think of sleep as simply being the time when we are not awake.  Sleep is so much more complex than this and falling asleep is not like switching off a light just as wakefulness cannot be likened to   switching a light on!  There are variations within sleep and wakefulness.  Imagine how you feel during a typical day – do you really feel “wide awake” from the minute you get up to the time you go to [...]

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The Vicious Cycle of Anxiety and Sleep Loss

anxiety sleep disorder If you suffer from sleep anxiety, it means you worry about your Insomnia. Actually, you may even be obsessed about it.  It becomes a vicious cycle because you worry about the amount of sleep you had last night, then you start to worry about how much sleep you are going to get tonight and so on. It does not stop there as then you start to worry about why you are feeling so tired and whether or not you will make it through the day. The worry gets worse as you begin to ponder on whether you will start to get fatigued or develop secondary health problems due to the lack of sleep and all this starts to build your anxiety even more which in turn causes sleeping problems: a total vicious cycle starts and gains momentum. Sleep anxiety can be attributed to stress. When people get stressed, a naturally occurring chemical called serotonin is created. Serotonin is sometimes called the neurotransmitter and it plays a leading role in analysing data in the brain. Serotonin affects the melatonin levels and melatonin is a hormone of great importance as it encourages a good night’s sleep. If melatonin levels become compromised, for example due to stress and anxiety, the outcome could be problems with your natural sleeping cycle. Furthermore once sleeping problems occur, further anxiety builds up creating an excess of adrenalin into the [...]

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