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Let's study about "insomia".
Reading these information, you'll find that my explanation is easy to understand and not boring~!!
The Meaning of INSOMNIA
Insomnia is defined as trouble falling asleep or staying asleep. This is not an uncommon problem. Anyone can suffer from insomnia. It can disturb your waking, as well as your sleeping hours. It can cause you to feel sleepy or exhausted during the daytime, affect your mood, your concentration on tasks.
If you cannot sleep well these days or for a long time, you need to be checked your health condition and find the cause. Recent research provides that insomnia is affected by psychological, lifestyle, environmental, and physical/psychiatric factors.
Three Types of INSOMNIA
Typically, there are three types of insomnia.
- Transient insomnia
- Short-term insomnia
- Chronic insomnia
If you are awake for a few nights, that isTransient insomnia. It can be lasted fewer than four weeks. Any ordinary person who faces important exam, meeting and worries about the argument with family or friends. And people are more likely to have troubled by sleepless when they are away from home, especially if they have traveled across time zones. For example, Jet leg is easily experienced.
Short-term insomnia is more serious. If you cannot sleep well from one to six months. Like Transient insomnia, this is largely influenced by stress and physical fatigue. As the cause resolves or a person adjusts to it, sleep patern is easily returned to normal.
More than 20 million Americans complain of Chronic insomnia. Poor sleep lasts every night or most nights for more than six months. In this situation, we cannot conclude that this is merely the result of worries because the person may have physical problem. According to a nationwide study by the Association of Sleep Disorders Centers, physical ailments-such as disorders of breathing or abnormal muscle activity-are often mistaken for insomnia and may account for a large number of self-diagnosed cases of insomnia.
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