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The Danger Of Hypersomnia

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We know that insomnia is not good for health as discussed previously. Likewise with oversleeping (excess sleep) or hypersomnia, it is equally bad for the body. Although sleep is an activity that must be met to assist in the rejuvenation of the body, if done excessively, it will have a negative effect on health. Experts also recommend to not more than nine hours of sleep each night.

What are the possible cause of oversleeping or hypersomnia syndrome?

  • Sleep apnea, type of sleep disorder in which people stop breathing for a moment when sleep and can lead to increased need for sleep as it makes the normal sleep cycle is disturbed. The patient will feel tired and weak even after sleeping for 10 hours. Respiratory problems began to occur because the walls of the throat tend to stop the move, while the individual is in a state of relaxation. As a result, the air flow inside the body and instantly stops the individual wake up to breathe.
  • Narcolepsy, which causes neurological problems oversleeping. Narcolepsy affects parts of the brain that controls and regulates sleep. Patients (narcolepsy) failed to identify and distinguish the sleep time to time to stay awake. Sufferers can fall asleep anywhere and anytime.
  • Stress and depression. These two things must be avoided because it can cause many mental health disorders, mental as well, not least oversleeping.
  • Fatigue. Fatigue caused by working too hard, sleep disorders, pregnancy, or lack of sleep is one of the main causes of oversleeping. When feeling tired, you tend to decide to sleep longer, even more than nine hours, to try to get fresh again.

What are the health effects of oversleeping?

  • Diabetes.
  • Obesity.
  • Heart disease.
  • Headache.
  • Back pain.
  • Death.

What treatment options to address oversleeping?

Long sleep usually do not require treatment unless the symptoms indicate a more serious disorders. In such cases, the cause must be known in advance. The biggest problem they have any old sleeping habits is to adjust the daily schedule for bedtime. If it does not meet the required quantity of sleep, they usually will feel upset and having exhausted the next day. They also face problems in social relationships.

Tips to overcome oversleeping:

• Select the alarm tone or sound right. Choosing the right sound is important to return you to reality, even from your deepest sleep.

• Do not be tempted to light sleep or snooze after you wake up. Avoid the use of the snooze button on the alarm because the alarm will only mess up your schedule.

• Maintain a regular sleep schedule. Make a habit that makes your body a rest and come back regularly to be ready to move on the next day. Plan program activities until late only when you are free of deadlines on the next day.

• Consult with your doctor. See your doctor if you experience symptoms of chronic oversleeping. It’s important to know the disorders or diseases that cause you to experience oversleeping.

Deal With Insomnia

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The best human ability to avoid the stress is to sleep. During the break, when we sleep, a process of improvement in terms of fitness. Once awakened, the body feels fresh. However, sleep problems and gain fitness because getting enough sleep was not a simple thing. Meanwhile, the insomnia syndrome is a symptom as opposed to things sleeping.

People with insomnia have difficulty sleeping soundly. He will sleep a wink to then easily awakened again, often awakened by nightmares that wake up in the morning when the body feels tired, listless, and overcome reluctance to begin work. Indeed many people who find it difficult to sleep if it’s just one night in a strange place or forced to use a different sleeping equipment. It’s hard to sleep like that can not be said to be insomnia. Insomnia is a symptom of chronic sleeplessness.

Insomnia often can not be addressed only by sleeping pills simply because the association of insomnia with anxiety psychological condition is very strong. In fact, insomnia itself is actually a symptom that can arise by a variety of emotional conflict suffered by a person. Thus, symptoms of insomnia is not a single symptom, except for sleep disturbance caused by an organic injury in the central nervous system or systemic neurological disease progression, but also an indication of neurotic conditions.

Therefore, for cases of insomnia, the physician should work as a team with a clinical psychologist in order to accelerate the process of curing insomnia can be done with a more optimal results. Who knows the main source of complaints of insomnia lies precisely on the aspects of the patient’s own personality.

Efforts to deal with insomnia

Sometimes a simple effort are outlined below can help relieve symptoms of insomnia can even cure insomnia.

1. Try to make yourself relaxing one hour before bed by listening to soft music or read a story that does not stimulate mild emotional turmoil.

2. Avoid exhausting physical activity before bedtime. Plan your brushing activity, activity in the toilet, and cleaned up an hour before bedtime.

3. If it feels difficult to sleep, it’s better than lying still restless to unwind and keep turning the body on the bed because sleep will not come. Sleep is an activity that comes by itself is relaxed and soft, not the result of a hard struggle. So, the body moves further and further likelihood restless we can sleep soundly.

4. Each period of sleep always be characterized by the movement of the body after a certain time lag. Quiet sleep time with no movement occurs only around 12 minutes, and then certain body movements during sleep makes a person wake up suddenly. However, waking up several times by body movement does not mean there has been a sleep disorder. So, do not be too quick to conclude that we are hard to sleep.

5. Quickly to the conclusion that we have trouble sleeping, without realizing we anticipate ourselves to get a sleep disorder at bedtime.

6. Escaping from a sleep disorder can be obtained by trying to accept it with great spirit, without strong resistance by saying to yourself. Various expressions can not anticipate myself to sleep will just make it hard to sleep. More and more opposed or feared, by the resistance emotional tension and fear that makes us actually really difficult to sleep.

7. If we realize that there are unresolved issues, we should look for professional help to get the right solution. Convince us that through perseverance will be able to solve problems during this resulted in emotional tension that play a role in insomnia suffered. The solution we obtain will reduce emotional tension and insomnia also gradually will gradually be resolved.