Insomnia

Insomnia

Introduction

The insomnia is the psychological disorder which result when the neurotransmitters; inhibitory and excitatory are disturbed. The optimum level of the functioning of these transmitters is essential for healthy body and sound sleep. The depletion of these transmitters is happened due to the stress and proper diet.

Insomnia is the type of sleeping disorders. Sleeping disorders are characterized by the disturbance in sleeping habits. Most of the people suffer from sleeping problems due to stress and other factors at one time or the other. But when the sleeping disorders are stretched over a long period of time and occurring on almost regular basis then one has some serious sleeping disorder issues. Sleeping disorders are classified in three main categories which are disturbed sleep (periodic limb movement disorders, REM sleep behavior disorder, sleep apnea and restless leg syndrome), lack of sleep (insomnia) and excessive sleep (narcolepsy).

The term insomnia is commonly used as the slackness of the sleep. The diagnostic criteria of the insomnia is when patient reports to suffer sleeping disorders more than a month and the slackness of sleeping negatively impact the well being of the patient because the insomnia results in stress or it leads to the negative impact on mood or the performance (Mai et al., 2008).

When a patient is diagnosed with insomnia, it is important to understand the medical and psychological conditions of the patient. These include neurologic diseases, psychiatric disorders, medical conditions, medications and other important substantial piece of evidence to evaluate the severity of the problem.

Patients diagnosed with psychophysiological insomnia are found most of the time worried about their lack of sleep will significantly result in the compromise in their ability to perform day to day activities of both professional and social settings.

Sound and comfortable sleep is invaluable and one feels fresh when he/she take the proper sleep. Proper sleep is required not only for the brain to work properly but it is also required to rest of the body to perform at optimum level. The lack of sleep may also negatively impact the digestive system of the body.

Though there are number of sleeping disorder, but the most prevailing sleeping disorder and most of the people of unaware of this sleeping disorder. Another reason for choosing this topic is that many people confuse short sleeping duration with insomnia and therefore it is important to make the difference between the insomnia and short sleeping duration (Buysse et al., 2008).

Sometimes, I myself feel problems during sleeping and most of the time I find myself unable to understand the reasons for this. Therefore, I decided to know more about the sleeping disorders especially insomnia. So that I can understand the causes, diagnosis and treatment of this psychological disorder and act accordingly to minimize the chances of sleeping disorder. I have met many people during my professional life who complains about the same sleeping disorders. Most of them attribute sleeping problems to the work load and stress of the job. I even such people who seemingly have ...