...order for us to prevent our terrors to become a weakness. Being afraid of something can mean that you are facing a superior force in which you feel inferior to. Knowing you’re facing something bigger and more powerful can trigger that effect on your body and mind to try to abstain away from danger. One great example of fear is the one they instituted in North Korea. This nation is a ‘’population mind control by fear’’ (psyche truth). Despite the terrible and horrible living conditions, the North Korean people have never protested against their communist government. If you’re accused of political dissension the military will take you and your family into a labor camp, in which you will endure hard labor until the day of your death. They will never protest because they fear that 3 generations will be doomed to death (psyche truth). Another example of a group controlling or incorporating fear to achieve their personal goals is the news. They show how dangerous the outside world is and we’re intrigued by the fact there is something out there that will put our life into risk, this makes us want to know more about the subject, therefore; news will get more and higher ratings. Instead of fearing danger we find ourselves attracted and pulled into it which is odd to...
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...Sleep is essential for a healthy lifestyle, but as people get older and busier, the concept of sleep in our mind twists into a luxury instead of being a necessity. In reality, a multitude people all over the United States fail to realize that without a proper rest period, the body’s mental and physical state start to go on a downhill spiral, and they can start to experience many health issues such as fatigue and anxiety among many other conditions. Thankfully, this can all be avoided by acknowledging and using simple strategies that support adequate sleep. Surely, the most asked question is what exactly is sleep deprivation and what are the symptoms? Sleep deprivation is simply being unable to get the sufficient amount of sleep for long periods of time. The most common type of sleep deprivation has the symptoms of fatigue, excessive drowsiness, and irritability. There’s a distinct kind of lack of sleep called chronic sleep deprivation, and has dire symptoms such as malaise, depression, memory loss, and the development of psychosis. In severe cases it may eventually lead to death. This grave condition can be caused by abnormal stress levels, drug abuse, and overworking. (Davis) Lack of sleep has been associated with weight gain and obesity. In the article, 14 ways lack of sleep is causing weight gain, research has shown that tired people reach more for foods that are high on bad carbs. Examples of bad carbs are pastries, pasta, rice, white bread, and artificially sweetened...
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...Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is when an infant dies unexpectedly and without any known cause. This syndrome is the number 1 leading cause of death in infants. It is estimated that about 4,500 infants between 2 to 4 months die in the United States due to SIDS (Burke). The cause of death is still unknown, however, it is speculated that the reason the babies die of SIDS is because of their body’s lack of regulation such as controlling blood pressure, and regulating breathing and/or temperature (Burke). The time of death usually occurs when the baby is asleep. It is said that the baby’s sleeping positions are a possible risk factor for SIDS, such as stomach sleeping or co-sleeping with a parent. Other possible risks for SIDS are exposing...
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...he most common form of sleep apnea is “Obstructive Sleep Apnea”, a condition where the airways are blocked, causing breathing to be briefly interrupted multiple times during the night. Up until relatively recently, the standard of care for sleep apnea has been the CPAP machine, where air pressure is applied through a nasal mask. In 2006 the American Academy of Sleep Medicine included oral appliances as a first line of therapy for mild to moderate Obstructive Sleep Apnea and studies have repeatedly validated their efficacy. In Oral Appliance Therapy, an oral appliance is placed in the mouth and worn much like a mouth guard. It acts to keep your airways open. Oral appliances are also used to control snoring. Who provides Oral Appliance Therapy? Dentists with advanced training in the field of dental sleep medicine are recommended for the fitting and installing of oral appliances. Dr. Takacs is a member of the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine and has taken a residency on sleep medicine at Tufts University. Once it is determined you have sleep apnea, and its severity, she can equip you with a custom made oral appliance. What is Sleep Apnea? The word “apnea” originates from the Greek “without breathing.” Sleep apnea is a common but potentially dangerous sleep condition which is characterized by repeated pauses in your breathing during sleep. These pauses can last from a few seconds to minutes and can occur thirty or more times per hour, and hundreds of times throughout...
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...Brower and Hall (2001) have studied sleep disorders among a specific population, that of those who are alcohol dependent. Their study was quite ambitious, as it included sizeable populations (N=139 participants diagnosed as alcohol dependent) and a control group (N=87 non-alcoholics). The authors also considered the effects of participant age, as they analyzed their data for differences between those older than 55 and younger than 55. The data collection instrument was a validated self-report questionnaire that collected information concerning the prior six months regarding sleep apnea, periodic leg movement disorder, narcolepsy, and psychiatric sleep disorder. The authors excluded from the study those with existing disorders or problems that are known to affect sleep negatively, such as depression, GI problems, respiratory problems, and head trauma. Brower and Hall developed three main findings. First, alcoholics who had recently begun sobriety had more disturbed sleep than non-alcoholics due to varying levels of respiratory distress and periodic leg movements. Second, older adults had more disturbed sleep than younger adults, with less REM sleep, more respiratory distress and more periodic leg movement. Third, the combination of alcoholism and age exacerbated the problems. The authors were not surprised by any of these findings. Ohayon, Caulet, and Lemoine (1996) found that sleep patterns in the elderly can be negatively impacted due to deteriorating health and the presence...
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...This brings me to my research into Scientific explanation of Sleep Paralysis. My main source of this information was the Book “Sleep Paralysis- A guide to Hypnagogic Visions & Visitors of the Night” by Ryan Hurd (2011). The first thing I encountered in this book was the symptoms of Sleep Paralysis. The information gathered in the book state that these symptoms are “nearly universal and have been noted throughout history and across cultures.” Examples of these symptoms include, inability to move, feeling like being held down or experiencing a weight pushing down on the chest and throat, hearing strange noises such as buzzing, pounding heart, experiencing fear and terror, out of body experience, seeing weird creatures and difficulty in breathing. Subjects may experience multiple attacks during one night, losing entire night of sleep as well as causing extreme emotional fatigue. “This is often diagnosed as Repetitive Isolated Sleep Paralysis (RISP) and can be treated with medication.” Sleep Paralysis is caused by disrupted sleep schedule, stress, anxiety and also lifestyle choices that can aggravate stress and insomnia. “Sleep Paralysis was not understood by the medical establishment until recently. The experiences of thousands of sufferers were thought to be folklore and were lumped together with other kinds of nightmares.” In the 1970’s, several laboratories studied patients who suffered with Sleep Paralysis. Since then, we learned a lot about biology of SP and the effect of it...
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...Rafael Pelayo of the Stanford Sleep Medicine Center, says that snoring can begin at any age, but it does occur more often as you get older. Earlier this month, he sleep specialist sat down with The Huffington Post to give some insight on what causes snoring, as well as why it gets worse as the years go by. In particular, snoring is caused by your throat muscles relaxing and narrowing while you are sleeping, with the loud sound being the result of you trying to breathe through the tinier space. Here’s what else you need to know: Why is your snoring getting worse? Weight gain, specifically around your neck, contributes to narrowing your throat—as well as decreased muscle tone, menopause and other hormonal changes. What are your treatment options? If you do not have sleep apnea, there plenty of over-the-counter humidifiers that may help you breathe better. Dr. Pelayo recommends giving nasal strips, positional devices, tongue exercises, snoring pillows and nasal sprays a try. Losing weight is also highly recommended by doctors and sleep experts to reduce snoring. What’s the difference between snoring and sleep apnea? Dr. Pelayo says that while snoring is a narrowing of the throat, sleep apnea is more of a closure with the airway becoming almost blocked. Characterized by pauses in breathing during sleep, the sleep apnea is a serious medical condition that significantly impacts your health and overall quality of life. Do you really have sleep apnea? While snoring is a symptom...
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...Sleep Depravation Specific Purpose: The main point of my speech is how sleep depravation affects our bodies. The reason why I choose this topic was because as college students we have many sleepless nights and I want to show how this affects us in short term and long term. Central Statement/Thesis Statement: Sleep deprivation has many side affects in my speech I will be indicating the affects that it has on the brain, the metabolism, and in behaviors. Introduction I. Hello, everyone. So we left off..(recap of previous speeches). To begin with how many of you have had to stay up for most of the night in order to finish a paper, a lab, a project, or study for a test? Well I have had a few of these nights especially when I end up taking too many credit hours per semester. But most of us do not acknowledge how harmful this sleepless night is to our health. II. Today I will be speaking about the effects that sleep depravation has on brain, metabolism, and behavior. III. The reason why I choose this subject was because in my previous Psychology classes we have address the issue of sleep deprivation on human behavior. Also, I have read and cited many scholarly articles that support the main ideas of my topic. IV. As college students we are always on the go, going to work, going to school, and doing homework. Along the semester we usually do not have time to sleep, but we need to know how this is affecting our bodies. It is important for us to make time for sleeping. V. The topics...
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... While some sleep disorders can be quite dangerous and hazardous to the health of a person, there are not many as dangerous as REM sleep behavior disorder. It can lead to very dangerous situations with the person and/or the person you sleep with. If left undiagnosed and untreated, it could lead to the eventual death of a person or their loved one. That is why it is important to understand the symptoms, causes, and treatments of REM sleep behavior disorder, so that personal harm can be prevented at all costs. The DSM V for REM sleep behavior disorder is numerous, but very specific on what qualifies for the disorder. For instance, a person with REM sleep behavior disorder can be seen talking and/or moving during the REM sleep period. The person can wake up from these instances and is not dazed or confused. The person will wake up and be alert without being tired. The person can be seen moving as their muscles will not turn off like normally done in REM Sleep. These instances can cause problems in social, work, or other aspects of life. The disorder can be caused by a history of REM sleep behavior disorder or a degenerative disease to the nervous system, such as Parkinson's or Alzheimer’s, although, no known link has been found from REM sleep behavior disorder to drug abuse or other medical conditions. The case study is an interesting one. The patient, James, was sent to a sleep disorder clinic after a few separate instances. First, James had been dreaming that he was being...
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...a sign and a symptom that can accompany several sleep, medical, and psychiatric disorders, characterized by persistent difficulty falling asleep and/or staying asleep or sleep of poor quality. Insomnia is typically followed by functional impairment while awake. One definition of insomnia is difficulties initiating and/or maintaining sleep, or nonrestorative sleep, associated with impairments of daytime functioning or marked distress for more than 1 month.Insomnia can occur at any age, but it is particularly common in the elderly. A nightmare is an unpleasant dream that can cause a strong negative emotional response from the mind, typically fear or horror, but also despair, anxiety and great sadness. The dream may contain situations of danger, discomfort, psychological or physical terror. Sufferers usually awaken in a state of distress and may be unable to return to sleep for a prolonged period of time.Nightmares can have physical causes such as sleeping in an uncomfortable or awkward position, having a fever, or psychological causes such as stress and anxiety or death. Eating before going to sleep, which triggers an increase in the body's metabolism and brain activity, is a potential stimulus for nightmares.Recurrent nightmares that can interfere with sleeping patterns and cause insomnia may require...
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...was coming. Why does this happen? The majority call this narcolepsy, a much misunderstood sleep disorder. The real question is, what is narcolepsy? Narcolepsy is the brain's inability to control sleep. The brain somewhat pauses, and mixes up sleep stages leaving the person extremely exhausted than before they fell asleep. The next day narcolepsy takes its toll and the person goes in and out of consciousness. Most of the time the attack wont be noticeable due to some automatic behaviors. A person may even talk but can be truly hard to understand. There are also other parts to narcolepsy. The most common is called cataplexy. When cataplexy begins the person will most likely falls to the ground and lose sense and muscle tone. Cataplexy can be just like a seizure, with a few differences. One way to tell is to ask if your patient if they remember the incident itself or had any strange feeling before it happened. Most of the time the event is remembered and has little warning before it happens. Also cataplexy can be brought on by certain emotions, like laughter. So what causes narcolepsy? Nobody truly can point out the cause, but there are several possibilities. There hasn’t been any links proven with genetics although the case of multiple family members having narcolepsy is 30-40 times higher than the general population. Another cause could be head trauma; this could cause what is called secondary narcolepsy. Another possibility could be a seizure, which is known...
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...source, such as hearing one's name called by a voice that no one else seems to hear 5. Hallucinagens - drugs that causes hallucinations, such as LSD 6. Hypnosis - a social interaction in which one person (the hypnotist) suggest to another (the subject) that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur 7. Insomnia - an inability to fall asleep or stay asleep, or a tendency to wake up too early or experience poor sleep 8. LSD - considered the typical hallucinogen and the characteristics of its action and effects apply to the other hallucinogens, including mescaline, psilocybin, and ibogaine 9. Marijuana - a green or gray mixture of dried, shredded flowers and leaves of the hemp plant Cannabis sativa 10. Narcolepsy - It is characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, hypnagogic hallucinations and sleep paralysis 11. Nightmare - a dream occurring during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep that results in feelings of strong terror, fear, distress or extreme anxiety 12. Night terrors - sleep disorders characterized by anxiety episodes with extreme panic, often accompanied by screaming, flailing, fast breathing, and sweating and that usually occur within a few hours after going to sleep 13. Posthypnotic suggestion – a suggestion made to a hypnotized person that specifies an action to be performed after awakening, often in response to a cue 14....
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...1 Sleep Deprivation, Disorders, and Drugs Amanda Powell Psychology 240 3/14/14 Jennifer Graves 2 There is one distinctive time that I remember not having enough sleep and feeling deprived of it. I was up all night with my new puppy, this was just recent actually. She was sick all night, and I had to get up and go to a job interview in the morning, only being able to sleep for about 3 hours when I woke up I felt, as they say “groggy”, I was more tired when waking up than I had been going to sleep if that make sense. As the day went by I could feel the change in my mood, because I would snap very easy at things that were not pleasant. I felt emotionally drained and I was not my normal self, or how I would usually feel if I had gotten enough sleep the night before. My behavior felt as if I was trying to rush through things just to be able to get it done, because I had not had the motivation to do it, being so tired. Luckily when I went to the interview it was short, because they most likely could have told that I was sleepy. In the end I got the job, but I had felt very unmotivated and snappy all day. I think that sleep is important for one’s energy the next day. In my experience I believe that it is related to the effects that our book describes. I felt not myself in any sort, and I felt sleepier. That night I had fallen asleep very vast just as the text has described when a person is deprived of sleep. As well it may be just as described in the text that I was under...
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...The Dangers of Sleep Apnea: Why It's Important That You Get Medical Help Sleep apnea is a serious medical condition that affects approximately six percent of the population. Even worse, up to four percent of the population has an undiagnosed case of sleep apnea, which occurs when the body continually stops and starts breathing during sleep. The breathing cessations can last anywhere from a few seconds to a minute. There are two main types of sleep apnea: obstructive and central. Regardless of the different root causes, each one has serious consequences that are harmful and even be life threatening. http://www.sleepdisordersguide.com/sleepapnea/sleep-apnea-statistics.html Serious Sleep Problems The breathing pauses from sleep apnea can occur...
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...incomplete without sleep. If you are awake for more than 48 hours straight then you are troubling your health and body for the future. Sleep helps in reviving the body for the next day work. Sleep replenishes your body with the required amount of oxygen so that your body gets enough oxygen. Also, sleep helps your muscle get relaxed so that you can feel less stressed. Sleep helps in keeping the body fresh, making your skin get the required time to replenish itself. Provigil pill is important as it treats any problem related to sleep. Provigil helps in getting rid of sleep disorders. Sleep disorders are problems occurring due to changed sleep pattern, odd work shifts and maybe some health problems. Provigil pill is used in the treatment of narcolepsy, obstructive sleep apnea and daytime sleep. Sleep pattern alters most of the time due to work shifts and thus resulting in a bad work performance during office hours. If ignored for a long time then this sleep disorder can cause a problem during the long run of your health. Provigil pill should be only consumed after consulting a doctor. There are a lot of precautions that need to be taken before taking Provigil. If you have any kind of side effect then you must say it to the doctor and after...
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