Sleep Disorders

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Introduction

Living a sound, healthy and trouble free life is every person's dream, but this dream seldom materializes for a person. We have always heard our elders reiterating that the key to a healthy life, apart from proper food intake is having a substantial, healthy and proper sleep. However, there are a few individuals who are deprived of this invaluable blessing of relishing the comfort that night bestows on people, as they suffer from some specific disorder, known as sleep disorder.

Sleep Disorders

By merely reading the title, a naïve mind will be in a position to assimilate that sleeping disorder is a kind of disturbance of normal functioning that deprives an individual to savour the taste of peaceful and undisturbed sleep. However, the arena of psychology and medical science describe the sleep disorder more deeply than a naïve subjective definition. They define sleep disorder as a mental disorder that results in disorder of sleeping patterns of an individual. Interestingly, the facet of sleep order is not confined to only a single kind; in fact, sleep disorder is a vast class of disturbances of sleeping patterns that takes under its wings different facets of sleep disorders. The disorders that win themselves a place in the category of sleep disorder are mentioned below (Chokroverty, 2010).

Sleep Talking

Sleep talking, in a sheer medical context is also called Somniloquy, and is believed to be one of the category of the sleep disorder, which takes into account a situation in which a person tends to speak aloud while still being asleep. The patterns of sleep talking can vary; for instance it can be minor verbalization of words, or a long and extensive, as well as loud continuous sleep. This disorder may even extend to entire night, where an individual may speak throughout the night with intervals. It is believed that sleeping disorder takes place, when an individual experiences short-lived arousal from the NERM sleeps, which occurs when a person fails to soundly pass through the stages of sleep. Numerous researches have articulated that the sleep talking disorder arises as a result of other disorders, such as sleep related eating disorders, rapid eye movement, night terror and even sleep walking (Thompson, 2004).

Sleep Walking

Yet another sleeping disorder finds its way in this category, which is also named as somnambulism. The behaviour of sleep walkers are defined as the actions that are a resultant of slow wave sleep stage, that takes place in a low state of consciousness and renders such actions (by a person) that are typically executed in a full conscious state. the severity of these actions, which a person executes in a low conscious stage, can be as normal and casual as sitting, going to the bathroom, or as dangerous as opting to drive, cook, being violent, holding imaginary or perceived objects, and as much as homicide. However, it will not be inaccurate to state that most of the times the reported behaviours of sleep walking comprise of the benign ...