Insomnia & Sleeping Problems, Insomia

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Insomnia

Introduction & Overview:

Insomnia is a sleeping problem which presents itself in 3 different forms:

Difficulty in falling asleep when you first go to bed.
Waking up frequently during the night.
Waking up too early and not being able to fall back asleep again.

Nearly everyone has been affected with a difficulty in falling asleep which can lead to fatique, lack of clear judgement and decision making, inability to focus, slowed response time and mood changes the next day.

According to the UK's National Health Service, newborn babies need 16 hours of sleep a day while school age children require approximately 10 hours of sleep per day. As individuals get older, they generally need less sleep. Adults do well with 8 hours a day while seniors, 60 and older, can generally get by on 6 hours of sleep a night.(1)

Research over the last 30 years into sleeping problems have shed much light on the causes behind insomnia and has led healthcare professionals to look deeper into the psychological, lifestyle, physiological and environmental factors behind sleep problems. Most professionals who specialize in sleep disorders want to find and eliminate the underlying cause (whenever possible), rather than prescribe a sleeping pill which merely treats the symptoms.

Article by Jason Morrow
OmniMedicalSearch.com

Insomnia is sometimes misspelled as insomia