What is Insomnia?

What Is Insomnia?

Insomnia is a sleep disorder in which a person experiences poor sleep or has trouble sleeping. Insomnia may involve:

• Difficulty falling asleep
• Difficulty staying asleep (that is, waking up many times during the night), without necessarily having had any difficulty falling asleep
• Waking up too early in the morning
• Not feeling refreshed after a night's sleep
What causes insomnia?

Insomnia may be caused by a variety of things. There are three main areas that insomnia causes may be put into. These are mostly psychological problems although medical problems play their part.

Psychological Problems

Insomnia may be the result of depression, stress or some other psychological reason. Many people who suffer from psychological disorders also suffer from sleep disruption. If your insomnia follows a traumatic experience such as a car accident, an assault or a robbery, the trauma of the event may be contributing to your lack of sleep.

A tense work environment or a problematic marriage may cause insomnia that falls into the Social Problems category. The frustrations and irritability confronted throughout the day may be replayed in your mind when you try to lie down to go sleep. This may cause you to be unable to sleep, simply tossing and turning for hours.

Medical/physical issues and problems

Medical reasons may cause insomnia. Being in pain or worrying about your illness may keep you from sleeping. Or the medications you take for your illness may cause you to stay awake.
Can Your Body return to Normal?

It depends on the cause. If you are temporarily worried or stressed, resolution of your ‘life’ problems could result in a return to a normal sleep pattern.
Insomnia is one of those things that usually has an underlying cause, whether mental or physical. If you can iron that out, the insomnia will usually resolve however you must then get into the habit of sleep again and that is where some easy techniques can be essential.

David Marshall
www.answerstoinsmonia.com