New Article: Help with Insomnia and Sleep Difficulty

Article by Paul Douglass

What is Insomnia? What types of Insomnia are there? What causes insomnia? How can insomnia be helped?

News Item Date: 3rd of October 2008

What is Insomnia?

Insomnia, put simply, is a difficulty in sleeping. 

Insomnia is usually either a difficulty in getting to sleep, staying asleep, or waking from sleep too early.

The lack of sleep that insomnia can cause can be a major factor in the impairment of brain function while awake.

In the United States alone, insomnia is said to affect 60,000,000 people each year, which approximately one in every five people, although some studies have said that it can affect as many as 60% of people or more.
Insomnia affects women more than men.

The Types of Insomnia

Insomnia, just like anything else, can affect different people in different ways.  Insomnia can though, be broadly categorized as:

• Difficulty in falling asleep – This type of insomnia is often described by the sufferer as ‘not being able to switch off’.  Perhaps the person has something important on their mind, or perhaps they are generally suffering from anxiety about something.
  
• Difficulty in staying asleep – The person with this type of insomnia will find they wake up during the night, often many times per night. This type of insomnia can affect the quality of the sleep that the insomniac has, as well as the quantity of sleep.
  
• The first two types of insomnia can combine into another type of insomnia, where the person wakes during the night, and then has real difficulty in going back to sleep.  They will often report that when they wake from sleep, their mind ‘starts up’ and they can’t get something out of their mind, and so can’t get back to sleep.
  
• Waking from sleep early – People with this form of insomnia will wake from sleep too early in the morning, and not be able to go back to sleep again.  Some studies have shown that there can be a connection between this type of insomnia, and depression.

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Article by Paul Douglass

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