Does it take you a long time to fall asleep once you’ve tucked yourself in for the night?
Do you frequently wake up during the course of the night and experience difficulty falling back asleep?
Or do you find yourself waking up early for no apparent reason, feeling drowsy and unrested?
If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions, you may be suffering from insomnia.
We often use the term insomnia to describe someone who simply doesn’t sleep at all, but the condition is actually more nuanced than that. For this reason, many people often ignore these symptoms, not realizing that they are indicative of an underlying sleep disorder.
If you’re concerned about the quality of your sleep, check your symptoms and learn what measures you can take to treat your insomnia and when to talk to your doctor.
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What Is Insomnia – A Short Definition
Insomnia is the most well-known sleep disorder, and among the most common. In fact, the majority of us will experience insomnia at one point or another in our lives.
Insomnia is characterized by difficulty falling asleep and/or staying asleep; which results in too little sleep or poor quality of sleep.
More specifically, if it takes you longer than 30 minutes to fall asleep, or you find yourself spending 30 minutes or more awake during the night then you may be suffering from insomnia.
There are many reasons that one can be afflicted with insomnia; environmental, psychological or physical. Unfortunately all medications, including over the counter meds, for sleep also have negative side effects including; depression, anxiety and negative emotions like anger. Because of this I have always recommended to my psychotherapy patients that they use a good guided meditation for getting to sleep. There is one called Sleep, available at http://www.lightunlimitedpublishing.com, that has proven to be very effective for everyone I have recommended it to. It is a lot less expensive for them than any medication and no negative side effects.