...Sleep Deprivation, Disorders, and Drugs Anita Rouse PSY/240 02/13/2011 Kelli McLaughlin Lack of sleep is something we all have to deal with here and there, some more than others. There are even other individuals who have to live with sleeping disorders. Sleep deprivation, and sleeping disorders negatively affects those who are experiencing these issues. Luckily, scientists have come up with many different medications to help individuals sleep better. In this paper I will be discussing a time when I was sleep deprived and how it compared to the effects of sleep deprivation which were discussed in the text. I will also be discussing the effects of long-term reduced sleep and some common sleeping disorders and some of the drug remedies which can be used. About a month ago I experienced a hard time sleeping at night and it lasted a week. I would try and force myself to go to bed at my usual time, which is at 10:00 pm, but I would just lay there wide awake. When my alarm went off I felt like I had just fallen asleep. My usual sleeping routine works perfectly for me, I usually go to sleep around 10:00 pm and wake up at 6:30 am, which gives me eight and a half hours of sleep. When I was sleep deprived I am not sure how many hours I was sleeping, but I do know that I often saw 2:00 am, which means I was getting at the most four and a half hours of sleep each night. What was horrible about this week, was even though my oldest son goes to school, I had a toddler to worry...
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...Thompson PSY.150.4140 28 August 2015 Sleep disorder At one point in time everyone may have difficulties in sleeping. However, if you cannot shut your eyes for a nap or even get a deep sleep, then you may be struggling with sleeping disorders. These signs can manifest through the feelings of exhaustion despite sleeping for eight or more hours. Dozing off and nodding off during the day may also be experienced during work or study. Such a problem may be the result of health conditions such as depression, which often causes sleeping disorders. Sleep has an essential role in health and well-being throughout one’s life. Receiving enough and high-quality sleep can help boost your physical, social, and mental well-being as well as the quality of life. During sleep, the body works to boost the brain’s functioning while at the same time maintaining one’s physical health. Among the young-aged such as teenagers and children, sleep supports healthy growth and development. Sleep deficiency can happen at any time and cause health problems over time. The health problems in such cases may include poor clarity of thought, lack of concentration at work, poor social and interpersonal interactions, slowed reaction and poor memory in learning among others (Mignot at al. 10073). Somnipathy or sleep disorders can be regarded as medical disorders that affect sleep patterns of both human beings and animals. At times, sleep disorder can be so severe to the extent that they can hinder...
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...The Effects of Sleep Deprivation Aram Saruni ITT Technical Institute Aram Saruni EN 1320; Composition I Mr. Steven Berndt Research Paper Aguste 11, 2014 The Effects of Sleep Deprivation People today have many problems in their life and sleep deprivation is often a silent stressor. Sleep deprivation can affect any age group of people and getting a few extra hours of sleep on the weekend just it not enough. There is no substitution for sleep. Many people overlook the importance of sleep because they do think that there is a big threat to one’s health. However, this can be very dangerous in the long term. As members of a want it now society, people overlook the importance of sleep due to the fact that people are constantly working. Overlooking the amount people sleep will result in negative health effects, reduced alertness, and the use of pharmaceuticals or other substances. What can be done to prevent and break this silent danger? Sleep deprivation is a problem that with many consequences. There is an alarming lack of awareness about sleep deprivation. To understand how serious sleep deprivation can be, what is the cause or causes it, what are the effects and long term consequences, and one must understand why sleep is important. Sleep is the mental and physical resting state of a person. People go through different stages of sleep and need to go through these stages to get their bodies physically to unwind and mentally rest our brains. Sleep is a necessary...
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...many cases, people in good health tend to sleep well, whereas those suffering from repeated sleeping problems might have an underlying medical or mental health problem, be it minor or serious. Sleeping well is essential to your physical health and emotional well-being. Unfortunately, even minimal sleep loss can take a toll on your mood, energy, efficiency, and ability to handle stress. Ignoring sleep problems and disorders can lead to poor health, accidents, impaired job performance, and relationship stress. Most of us have experienced trouble sleeping at one time or another. This is normal and usually temporary, due to stress or other outside factors. But if sleep problems are a regular occurrence and interfere with your daily life, you may be suffering from a sleep disorder. Sleep disorders cause more than just sleepiness. The lack of quality sleep can have a negative impact on your energy, emotional balance, and health. A sleep disorder, or somnipathy, is a medical disorder of the sleep patterns of a person or animal. Some sleep disorders are serious enough to interfere with normal physical, mental and emotional functioning. Polysomnography is a test commonly ordered for some sleep disorders. Disruptions in sleep can be caused by a variety of issues, from teeth grinding (bruxism) to night terrors. When a person suffers from difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep with no obvious cause, it is referred to as insomnia. Getting a handle on insomnia can be difficult. Fortunately...
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...the amount of sleep an individual gets. Research studies claim that insufficient sleep affects the academic performance of college students in various ways. For more understanding about the topic, the researchers gathered articles from different sources to further explain the matter. ACCA Global (2015) stated that next to diet and exercise, sleep is deemed as the third most important key factor of health. As aspiring accountants in college strive to become qualified and excel in one’s studies, sleeping sufficiently becomes difficult and a challenge. One must understand and remember how sleep plays a significant role in conscious mental activities and a better memory. Research has proven as well that the hours of sleep one receives decreases as one ages. An infant normally sleeps 10-14 hours a day, but as an individual grows and ages, the demands of studies and work prevents a person to sleep sufficiently. Furthermore, school works or studying is not the only factor why students experience inadequate sleep. Exposure to light at homes and caffeine consumption can also be a contribution to sleep deprivation. Thus, one must always keep an eye on one’s sleep. College students...
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...another has had a restless night sleep. We have tossed and turned and woke up the next morning feeling tired and restless. You may ask yourself if this means that you have a sleeping disorder. What kinds of sleeping disorders exist and what causes them. Some of us have heard terms like, insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea, nightmares, and night terror, but how do these sleep disorders effect an individual? To understand some sleep disorders we must first understand the cycle of sleep. Most of us believe that sleep is what occurs at night when we close our eyes. This is true, but sleep is actually 5 different patterns or stages of activity in the brain. When we first lay down and close our eyes, this is the beginning of stage one sleep. In this stage you are no longer completely aware of your external environment. A slight noise or light touch could wake you. You become relaxed, your breathing becomes regular, and you have disconnected thoughts. After about 10 minutes you enter stage two of sleep. Stage two is a transitional stage, just like stage one, but on an EEG (electroencephalogram), which measures the electrical output of the brain, the brain activity is different. This stage takes a louder noise or heavier touch to wake a person from sleep. It is also at this stage when sudden jerks in your arms or legs cause you to wake suddenly. Stage one and two together usually last about thirty minutes and then you enter stage three sleep. Stage three and four are considered deep sleep...
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...Sleep Deprivation, Disorder, and Drugs Psy/240 May 29, 2011 Roberto Vado Sleep Deprivation, Disorder, and Drugs Sleep deprivation and disorders are problems that many people deal with every day. As a mother of three small children, two of which are twins, I have many experiences with lack of sleep. My most recent experience with sleep deprivation was in the last month I was so stressed out that it made me physically ill. I had such an awful stomach ache that it kept me up at night. I would fall asleep and be awake an hour later, then fall back to sleep two hours later and be awake again in 45 minutes. It was like this for a month and it did not start getting better until a couple of days ago. My experience does coincide with the effects of sleep deprivation described in the text. “When you sleep substantially less than you are used to, the next day you feel crabby and unable to function as well as you usually do”(Pinel, 2009). Sleep deprivation made me feel very sleepy. If I did not keep myself busy I would fall asleep on the couch, which would scare me because then my children were unsupervised. I also felt very irritable. I would get very angry over small things that normally would not upset me. I also would feel like I could not function normal. When I would try to read school work the words would seem to scramble together. Long-term sleep deprivation has many effects on a person. “One of the most important findings of human sleep deprivation research...
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...difficulties in sleeping for a short period of time, and example is days or a few weeks. Short term insomnia tends to be caused by immediate worries, such as an exam or a death in the family, noises at night, jet lag or a temporary medical condition, such as a cold. Long term insomnia which is known as chronic insomnia describes sleep difficulties lasting more than four weeks. A distinction is then made between secondary and primary insomnia. Secondary insomnia is much more common. Primary insomnia occurs when a person is having sleep problems that are not directly associated with any other health condition or physical cause such as drug abuse or medications. A person may be feeling stressed or depressed but such psychological states that are not the cause of the insomnia. It may be that the individual has developed bad sleep habits and this causes insomnia, but insomnia is the only problem. Sometimes insomnia may have had a identifiable cause but this has disappeared, yet the insomnia persists because of an exception of sleep difficulty - in their own words, the individual has come to expect that they will have sleep difficulties and these expectations lead to anxiety which then continue to cause insomnia. Secondary insomnia is when a person is having sleep problems because of something else. There is a single, underlying medical, psychiatric or environmental cause. In such cases insomnia is a symptom of the main disorder, i.e. it comes second, after the main disorder. It...
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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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...SLEEP DISORDERS UNCOVERED, | Sleeping Disorders Uncovered | Jeffery J. Dowling | | Mitchell College | 10/31/2013 | [Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document. Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document.] | Sleep could very well be the most important aspect of a healthy life. Not only physical health, but mental, and emotional as well. Without sleep it is hard to manage life day to day. Everyone knows that sleep is the most important thing for a healthy body because sleep is the time to relax. When someone is sleeping they do not have to think about life’s problems. The nature of today’s world hinders the opportunity for good sleep habits. Multiple studies have shown direct relationships between work hours and total sleep time. The more time a person spends working means less time they have to sleep. This proves how today’s world inhibits people of quality sleep (Swanson, et al., 2001.). Sleep is worth its weight in gold times ten. With immense exploration and study of sleep, new statistics and ways of assessing peoples sleeping habits have been fabricated. Sleeping Disorders come in all different shapes and forms. There are many factors that can cause these disorders that some people are born with, and other people get through some environmental factor. The four most prevalent disorders that people have are Insomnia,...
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...June 28, 2015 Depression: Cause and Effects A common but serious mood disorder, depression causes sadness, insomnia, feelings of worthlessness, and in its extreme form, suicidal thoughts, for an extended period of time, interfering with a person’s daily life (Andrews and Thomson, Jr.; “What Is Depression?”). While research primarily focuses on depression’s costs to the individual suffering from it, as well as his or her family and friends, some studies have found that depression does cause beneficial things to happen, such as greater success at analyzing complex problems and solving social dilemmas (Andrews and Thomson, Jr.). Depressive disorder comes in several forms, including major depression, in which severe symptoms interfere with one’s daily life and activities including eating, sleeping, and simply enjoying one’s life; persistent depressive disorder, which is depression that lasts two or more years; psychotic depression, which involves a break with reality or seeing or hearing hallucinations; postpartum depression in which women experience depression after giving birth; seasonal affective disorder (SAD) in which one suffers depression during winter months; and bipolar disorder, in which one cycles between manic and depressive stages (“What Is Depression?”). Women more than men are most likely to suffer from a depressive disorder , and even how women experience depression is different from how men experience it (“What Is Depression?”). Causes of Depression Considered...
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...Importance of the Problem Definition of Terms Chapter II: Definition of Insomnia Chapter III: Insomnia Causes Causes of Chronic Insomnia Physiological Causes Psychological Chapter IV: Symptoms of Insomnia Possible Diagnosis Chapter V: Types of Insomnia Chapter VI: Prevention of Insomnia Prevention in Insomnia from Shift Changes Prevention in Insomnia from Jet lag Tips for getting a better night sleep Chapetr VII: Treatment of Insomnia Music Theraphy Cognitive Behavioral Theraphy Medicines Relaxation Exercise Chapter VIII: Statistics of Insomnia Chapter IX: Conclusion Final Bibliography Chapter I Introduction General Consideration Insomnia is a symptoms,not a stand-alone diagnosis or disease.It is an abnormal wakefulness or inability to fall asleep throughout the night.Insomnia can be related to a medical or psychiatric illness,can be caused by mental stress or excitement or can be caused by your daytome and bedtime habits.It causes may be divided into situational factors,medical or emotional problems are probably the principal cause of insomnia. Insomnia can be prevented and treated in many ways. To prevent it, the patient is urged to try to avoid focusing his/her thoughts on the problem of insomnia and to learn and practice relaxation techniques. The main focus or treatment for insomnia should be directed toward finding the cause. There are many treatment to help you sleep better. Importance of the Problem This study is...
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...Psychology Mood Disorders: Causes, Effects and Treatment Mood Disorders: Causes, Effects and Treatment Robert Baker Psychology GE1116 Dr. Angela Isom November 30, 2009 Mood Disorders: Causes, Effects and Treatments In today’s society, people seem to have a lot of problems that are classified as mental disorders. These disorders include: depression, schizophrenia, bipolar, and even seasonal affective disorder (SAD). The immediate stigma that is placed on most if not all mood disorders is that they are sicknesses. In the case of depression, this is not to confuse depression, a normal emotion with biological depression, an illness. Further along this line of irrational thought is the belief that they are not treatable and the person affected is in some way, shape or form disconnected from civilization as we know it. In this research paper, we will attempt to destroy these unfair stereotypes on this subject, attempt to rationalize the behaviors, and shed light on treatments for the various disorders. The research gathered will attempt to understand and answer these questions: 1. What are mood disorders and their symptoms? 2. What are the causes? 3. How can the stigma of mood disorders be removed? 4. What forms of treatment are the most successful? What Are Mood Disorders And Their Symptoms? In order to get a good idea of what causes mood disorders, we first must...
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...Mental Health Disorders Anxiety Disorder *Category of interrelated mental illness involving anxiety reactions in response to stress. anxiety disorders. (n.d.) Examples: Agoraphobia * Fear of being in a public place where escape would be embarrassing or difficult. This is particularly prevalent when a person fears they have a panic attack General Anxiety Disorder ( GAD) * Anxiety symptoms occur in multiple environments and due to multiple objects or situations. Anxiety symptoms may not have a known cause. 3. Panic Disorder *Consists of severe, immediate anxiety symptoms ( a panic attack) due to a variety of causes, as well as the worry over having another panic attack. Tracy, N. (2012, January 13). Eating Disorders *Characterized by a persistent disturbance of eating of eating- related behavior that results in the altered consumption of absorption of food and that significantly impairs physical health and psychosocial functioning. Examples: 1.Anorexia Nervosa *Intense fear of gaining weight of becoming fat, or persistent behavior that interferes with weight gain, even though at a significantly low weight. *Restriction of energy intake relative to requirements, leading to a significantly low body weight in the context of age, sex, developmental trajectory and physical health 2. Binge-Eating Disorder *Eating in a discreet period of time (e.g. within 2 hour...
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...is generally defined as the inability to sleep adequately a few times a weak and doesn’t mean the inability to sleep at all. Insomnia can be chronic or on going.Certain causes of insomnia can be categorized into three major categories which include lifestyle, health and environment. Experiments were carried out to see how insomnia affects quality of life and the conclusion reached was that people suffering from insomnia report greater quality of life impairment in contrast to people without insomnia. Sleep disturbance can exacerbate the condition, disrupt treatment, cause further complications and add to the social disability associated with chronic illness. Insomnia can result in mental illness and can have a huge impact when it comes to efficiency of a subject. Personally traits can be a major differentiating point when it comes to comparison between subjects with and without insomnia however personality differences between insomniacs and controls might rather be state-dependent instead of trait-dependent. Treatment of insomnia can be by two major ways namely pharmacotherapy and nonpharmacologic interventions. Herbal treatment as per 82% of Canadians are also very effective when it comes to treating insomnia. Rest and little exertion can also play a vital role when it comes to curing insomnia. Effects Of Insomnia On Quality of Life Insomnia is derived from the Latin word which means “no sleep”. A recent report estimates that 60 to 70 million American suffer from some...
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