If you find yourself counting millions of sheep before falling asleep for quite a longer period now, you are having conditioned insomnia. This is also defined as the constant problem of trouble sleeping that will last for at least six months. This continuous restless sleep disorder will not do any good on your health or your total being. Failure to treat this problem would pose detrimental illness.
Insomnia is caused by a variety of factors such as the heavy workload that may also cause restless leg syndrome, uncomfortable sleeping environment and other stress-related factors. If not treated or diagnosed correctly, insomnia have these negative effects:
Shift work
When you have continuous sleeplessness, your body tends to adjust its clock and rhythm of working. Because your body is disturbed from abnormal sleeping pattern, your body’s routine activities would eventually be moved of its timing.
Poor concentration and judgment
Having lack of sleep at night means not having the enough rest your mind and body needs. It is through sleep that your body could rejuvenate. Without restful sleep will tire the mind and body. Your reaction-time will also be poor, so you can not respond directly to abrupt situations. Horrible example would be traffic accidents due to sleepy drivers.
Depression
When you don’t get enough sleep you will likely have headaches and chronic pain in the body. These stress-related conditions often lead to depression. About ninety percent if insomnia sufferers are also suffering from depression.
Ageing
When you lack sleep, you do not get the chance for body rejuvenation and detoxification. Then you start having those unwanted face wrinkles. Premature ageing is another term for this effect.
Other physical Illness
Hypertension and high blood pressure are just few of the possible detrimental health effects of conditioned insomnia. There had been studies conducted and concluded about the correlation between these diseases and insomnia.
It is very important that you get to know why you are having insomnia and determine the real cause of it so that you will know how to diagnose it. Treatment methods also vary from person to person because people may have different factors of acquiring insomnia.
