Stress due to Insomnia

In the terminology of medical or psychological problems faced by someone who looks stressed, sleepless nights then, no appetite, drastic weight loss can be classified as insomnia. But the cause is actually very diverse. Can be due to a trivial matter, can be a big problem. Therefore, if someone attacked by insomnia (in = no; sommus = sleep), the cause should be examined to be handled according to the cause.

According to dr. W.M. Roan, a psychiatrist from Ongkomulyo Hospital, Jakarta, the body that feels less healthy due to systemic illness (complete body pain) or local severe pain, a patient will be restless sleep. Mental disorders, even mild to severe, often giving birth insomnia. That kind of secondary insomnia. If the cause of psychological factors of insomnia or depression called simplex.

To find out the exact cause of insomnia, should be examined very carefully: if the patient has insomnia for a few hours, or the whole night can not sleep? Is the day he was sleeping? Insomia disorders can be traced from the way a person lives on a regular basis until the night life.

Someone who complained it difficult to sleep at the early phase of sleep at night, Roan added, can be associated with great anxiety disorders. When insomnia occurs the middle of the night - that time in bed (at 21:00 to 22:00) is easy, but the middle of the night (24.00 - 02.00) woke up and could not sleep anymore - according to Roan, insomnia disorders that can be associated with mental or neurological disorders that considerable weight . When you wake up in the early morning (at 03.00 - 04.00), and difficult to sleep again, it is usually associated with major depression disorder.

Meanwhile, according to Drs. Hartono HDW., A pharmacist, there are three types of insomnia, the insomnia is temporary, short-term insomnia, and chronic insomnia. In temporary insomnia, sleep disturbances have only a few nights. Short-term insomnia due to sudden stress. The heavier and more difficult to treat is chronic insomnia. In addition to depression or psychological factors, could also be due to the influence of liquor or beverages which contains caffeine, illness, influence the use of sleeping pills or tranquillizers in long-term, drugs that lower high blood pressure like atenolol group betablocker, nadolol, propanolol, and so on.




Later trouble sleeping is also associated with disorientation of time. Sleep cycle messed up from his sleep biological clock too chaotic. People who get on a plane beyond the 6 to 7 zones of time, usually will experience jet lag syndrome, have symptoms decreased alertness, insomnia, and fatigue the body. People who travel by plane from East to West, though tired but not exhausted to fly from the opposite direction. Maybe we should alert your body and hold for a flight from west to east a lot during the day, so people have to keep awake while waiting for arriving at the destination. Jet-lag can be overcome with said melatonin.

Meanwhile, the flight in one time zone, Jakarta - Bangkok - Beijing, for example, not because it was tiring to stay in one time zone, just like when we got the car in the city.

If the cause of psychological factors and after more than one week can not be solved alone, should be immediately consulted a psychologist or psychiatrist. If due to certain diseases, was examined in a doctor immediately examined and treated for his illness.

Treat yourself with a variety of sedatives such as Rina is not recommended. Because it is feared it could have a negative impact, such as a drug addiction, troubled mind, dementia, disorders of organs, etc..

Nutritionists advise that people with insomnia consume everyday foods contain a lot of copper (2 mg), iron (10 - 15 mg) and magnesium (400 mg). But people with heart or kidney disorders should consult a doctor first.

Brain and muscles stimulate each other

Disorders insomnia sleep shows how the activity is important. Because, "Everybody needs to sleep (at night) as needed," commented Joyse Walsleben, Ph.D., a psychologist from the United States. "If not, the brain will tell us to sleep in the daytime."

Normally, an adult takes time to sleep 7 to 8 hours a night. The elderly are often less than that. Not surprisingly, lack of sleep the night it felt quite fresh, especially for a month as experienced by Rina.

With actual sleep someone do the cleaning themselves from "the garbage cause of fatigue". Citing the research of chemists, dr. P. Carbone of the U.S. express, in a day of products "junk" that comes from muscle activity throughout the body - is composed largely of dioxide and lactic acid - accumulate in the blood and have a toxic effect on nerves, causing fatigue and drowsiness. During sleep "junk" is destroyed, so that when you wake up your body feel fresh. But the taste of fresh peak, according to the experts said, just felt two hours later.

Dr. Roan added, drowsiness related to the hypothalamus in the brain. In a fresh body and normal, the hypothalamus is working well, so they can give a normal response to changes in the body or environment. However, after the body was tired after working hard all day, plus regular hours of sleep and something to be calm around him, like the sound of birds singing, light wind, soft mattresses and pillows, comfortable air, etc.., Had reduced ability to respond, causing a person sleepy.

Actually, sleep is not simply resting the body, but also the rest of the brain, especially the cerebral cortex, the most important part of the brain or the highest mental functions, which are used to remember, to visualize and imagine, assess and provide reasons for something.

Test ever conducted on several hundred men who are willing to volunteer to not sleep for days showed, after 4 - 8 days, did not occur physically meaningful decline. But in just 24 hours without sleep, symptoms of serious mental disorders is already visible, such as quick to anger, memory loss, hallucinations occur, illusions, etc.. Even so, the bed again the next day all the noise was gone. In fact, there are experts said, better people do not eat and drink than not to sleep. Laboratory tests on animals showed that they can survive without eating and drinking to 20 days, but not to sleep only lasted no more than five days.

Some experts who monitor the activities of the body to the bed added, while sleeping minds and our muscles to stimulate each other. Causes muscle tension continued to be active while the cortex of the brain causing muscle tension continued to be active. Fatigue will reduce the pace of muscle, as well as the time to rest, so all this will decrease the activity in the cortex.

The reduced activity in the cortex would allow our muscles more relaxed. Once the stimulation of the mind and the muscle decreases, we'll get sleepy and fell asleep. While sleeping, your heart will beat more slowly, reducing blood pressure, and blood vessels dilate. Body temperature fell about 0.5 oF (...? OC) but the stomach and intestines are working. While sleeping, your body moving once again. Movement as much as 20 to 40 times is considered normal. Insomnia is disturbed mind and muscle work does not go hand in hand. Our minds will be difficult to sleep when the muscles are still tense. Instead, it would be difficult for the muscles to fall asleep when the mind is still awake, tense, and so on.

According to Roan, healthy and normal to say when it got into the bed with a neat order, pillows nice and soft, approximately 30-minute interval was asleep, so nobody even kissed the pillows in 3 - 5 minutes was asleep.

Rapid eye movement

"Sleep is a stadiumnya, shallow sleep and sleep in," said Roan. We began to fall asleep until about 1 - 1.5 hours later, the stadium turned into a shallow sleep within. On reaching a shallow sleep the second time, his eyes seemed to move the ball quickly (rapid eye movement sleep = REM Sleep). This lasted for 15 - 20 minutes, then went back to the stage of a deeper sleep. After 1 to 2 hours, come back to REM sleep stage 2, which lasted 15 - 20 minutes. During the 7 to 8 hours of sleep could be 4 to 5 times REM sleep.

REM sleep several times had to occur during sleep. If not, the next sleep will be chaotic. If during the two weeks are always awake or awakened in the REM sleep stage, the next two weeks REM sleep the body requires more or often sleepy. If in normal REM sleep only 25% of the entire seven hours of sleep, when disrupted for two weeks, requires up to 65%. REM sleep is to feature some specific mental disorders. Someone who is depressed, that REM sleep from 4 to 5 times during 7 hours, moved closer to the beginning of sleep. In the elderly, shift REM sleep near morning.

When sleep occurs also changes the brain waves of electricity. If the alert (awake), high-frequency brain waves. During rest and closed her eyes, the brain out alpha waves with a frequency of 8 to 13 Hz. Towards a deeper sleep stages, brain waves will slow down, to be 3-7 Hz. This wave called theta waves. Furthermore, if very deep sleep, delta waves occur, 1 - 4 Hz. According to some researchers, more and more small waves per second, more soundly and quietly sleeping person. Among fans meditation delta waves precisely because it brings peace sought very high. When the opposite happened, would sleep less soundly.

Whatever the problems faced by someone, try to cope alone without the help of drugs. For example, to help expel stressors, take a piece of paper, write down the problem before it got into bed. If you bring work home office, take a job a few hours before bedtime. If the problem is not solved, calm the mind, bring your sleeping problems. The next day, at times clearer mind and body refreshed, the problem will more easily overcome.

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