4 Types of Sleeping Disturbances
There are hundreds of sleeping disturbances that can attack people of all ages and almost 95% of these disturbances cannot be diagnosed. The sleeping disturbances includes getting difficulty to sleep, getting difficulty to maintain sleeping, sleeping at inappropriate times, sleeping too much, and abnormal behavior that deals with sleeping.
In this case, sleeping disturbance can divided into 4 types:
- Insomnia
Insomnia is the condition of having the difficulty to sleep, having difficulty maintaining sleeping, getting up frequently, and sleeping too early. This condition can be temporary, about 2-3 weeks or chronic.
Factors that are related to insomnia are usually disease, depression, anxiety, stress, environment that goes hard with sleeping, caffeine, alcohol, chain smoker, sleeping at noon, sleeping habit that is too early, and spending time in bed when you do not want to sleep.
- Hipersomnia
This condition is caused by sleeping too much. This condition includes sleep apnea, narcolepsy, nocturnal myoclonus, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), and many more. If you get hipersomnia, you feel tired and sleepy at noon.
Narcolepsy is the will of sleeping that is insufferable at noon even though you sleep sufficiently in the night. This condition can attack both men and women, and both young and adult.
Meanwhile, nocturnal myoclonus is the condition in which you move your leg until the down section of your body periodically when you are sleeping. This condition is also related to the insufferable drowsiness at noon.
- Parasomnia
This condition usually happens to children. It is the behavior of disturbance when they are sleeping. It is usually caused by nerves and mental. This condition includes sleep terror and sleep walking. Sleep terror is to get up suddenly from their sleep in fear, sweaty, fast heartbeat, and confusion.
Meanwhile, sleep walking is to walk when they are sleeping and they do not realize and remember it. This condition is generally experienced by 2-12 years old children. It is usually caused by syndrome of organic brain, reaction of medicine, or mental cause.
- Sleeping disturbance because of sleeping schedule
This condition usually happens in people who are traveling to the place that has different time zone, or in shift worker. This condition includes sleep state misperception (the quantity of sleeping time is different from the predictable time), natural short sleeper (less sleeping, but without disturbance), and syndrome that makes its sufferer sleeps and gets up irregularly.
Most sleeping disturbances cannot be avoided, but they can be related to health condition that is more able to be avoided. For example is the fact that numerous sufferers get overweight. If you want to solve your sleeping disturbance, you should lose your weight. Mainly, the good sleeping pattern is the best prevention. Exercise and healthy diet also can help you to get qualified sleeping.
If you get sleeping disturbance in serious condition, this treatment can be done with medicine, equipment, operation, or life therapy. In certain disturbance, ray therapy can be done. However, the easiest thing to do is surely by changing your life pattern and adding your knowledge about sleeping topic.
