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Stresses in Your Life are Interfering with your Sleep?
Insomnia, or difficulty in sleeping, is common in many people under many different circumstances. I fact more than 10% of people may have sleeping problems. If you are facing a temporary but important deadline at work or under a lot of pressure, you may worry and therefore lose sleep. However, once you have met the deadline or the pressure is relieved, you should be able to sleep normally. Our bodies prefer regular daytime activity, so shift workers have trouble adjusting their patterns of sleep.
Try to determine the cause of your insomnia. If you are worried about things in daily life, try to deal with these issues before you go to bed. Sometimes making a list of the things you have to do the next day is a help. Cut down on caffeine, especially in the evening. Try drinking warm milk, which contains a natural chemical that encourages sleep. A warm bath before retiring may help. Although heavy exercise causes adrenaline to flow and might make sleeping difficult, try some light exercise before taking a bath. Reading something you enjoy may help you fall asleep, or watching television-but avoid stimulating programmes Insomnia may have physical cause; for example you may suffer from sleep apnoea, a condition in which breathing ceases for as long as ten seconds followed by a loud snore. It may be due to a disturbance in the respiratory centre in the brain, or to obstruction of the breathing passages. Change of position may help in relieving the obstruction, but if sleep is very disturbed medical help may be needed. People with sleep apnoea should not take sedatives. Other physical or mental disorders may cause sleep problems, and taking sedatives may mask the problem. Consequently, they should not be taken for long periods. Moreover, it is possible to become tolerant of a sedative after two or three weeks, and you may then need to take more to produce the same effect. Eventually the medication may cease to be effective and serious dependency can become a problem.
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