Understanding Insomnia. What is insomnia? Insomnia or difficulty in sleeping is a condition when a person is unable to fill his or her sleep needs, either in quality or quantity for a certain period. People affected by insomnia will have difficulty sleeping, or having difficulty maintaining a sleep situation.
The condition of insomnia can happen to anyone-young, old, male and female. But insomnia is more common in adults.
All kinds of insomnia
Based on the type of sleep, there are 3 types of insomnia:
1. Any initials when someone was about to start when sleep trouble slept.
2. Interlock which is when someone is unable to keep his sleep or wake up frequently as he sleeps.
3. Terminal anyone woke up very early and could not sleep again (Potter, 2005).
Based on the time period there were two types of insomnia:
1. Acute insomnia. That is when you take place in a short time, from one night to several weeks. This type is the most common and usually caused by situations such as stress at work, family problems, or traumatic events.
2. Chronic insomnia. This is when you experience for at least 3 night Biming'o and lasts for one month or more.
Based on the reason there are two types of insomnia:
1. Initial insomnia. The source of Elementary insomnia of spiritual/psychological issues, such as life change, long-term stress, and emotional influences,
2. Secondary insomnia. This is the side effect of a medical problem: health conditions, the impact of the disease, drugs, and others.
Causes of insomnia
Causes insomnia or difficulty sleeping there are two types, specifically due to medical problems and due to psychological problems.
If the medical reason is related, then all it takes is a medical treatment by the doctor.
If the cause is psychological problems, then the desired is to deal with a psychiatrist.
When shown then some reasons for insomnia include:
a. Sound or sounds: Under normal circumstances, a person is usually able to adapt to sound or sound so as not to disturb his sleep. But people who were terrified for some reason, then at night might just be waking over and over simply because the sound is fine though.
b. Air temperature: Everyone wants to sleep on the air temperature that is comfortable for him. When the air feels cold it will wear a blanket and when the air feels the heat will wear thin clothes. If a person does not feel comfortable with a certain temperature it will be difficult to sleep.
c. High areas: Insomnia is the common symptom in highland areas. This condition is called a thin air headache (mountain disease). For example, it happens to mountain climbers with an altitude of more than 3500 meters above sea level.
d. Some foods: drugs or other things that disturb the central nervous system: the state of insomnia can occur because of consumables such as coffee and tea containing caffeine, alcohol, and cigarettes containing nicotine and slimming body medications that contain me
e. Psychological problems: Some psychiatric illnesses, among others, are characterized by insomnia such as emotional disorder, neurological disorder, multiple personality disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and others (Juyuana, 2006).
Causes of insomnia in women
In women, in addition to the reasons mentioned above hormonal changes can also cause disorders in the sleep patterns of the person. Female progesterone hormone is a hormone that can make someone sleep.
At the time of menstruation, which reduced the number of hormones, women may face insomnia. Likewise, the ovarian process, increasing the quantities of progesterone can increase the drowsiness.
Many health practitioners have concluded that the cause of insomnia in women is due to hormonal changes. About 80% of women suffer from insomnia during pregnancy, menopause or menstrual cycles.
Risk of insomnia for health
The risk of insomnia on health must be cautious. More than a quarter of Americans said there was not enough sleep time. The situation may be bad for health.
The result of insomnia among other things mentioned in Wikipedia website: A survey of 1.1 million residents of America by the American Cancer Society found out that those who reported sleeping about 7 hours a night had the lowest rate of death, while those who sleep less than 6 hours or more than eight hours in higher mortality rates can sleep for 8.5 hours or more per night increase the rate of Ovat by 15%. Chronic insomnia-sleep less than 3.5 hours ( Women) and 4.5 hours (men) can also cause a 15% increase in the rate of Ovat. After controlling the length of sleep and insomnia
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