What-is-insomnia

What-is-insomnia in our life?

Insomnia is an experience of inadequate or poor-quality sleep and/or difficulty falling asleep

waking up in the night and unable or difficult returning to sleep

waking up too early in the morning

un-refreshing sleep

Insomnia is not defined by the hours of sleep a person gets. Individuals vary in their need for and their satisfaction with sleep. How much sleep is enough varies from person to person. Although 7 ½ hours of sleep are about average, some people do well on four to five hours of sleep. Other people need nine to 10 hours of sleep each night.

Insomnia may cause problems during the day, such as tiredness, a lack of energy, difficulty concentrating, and irritability. People who suffer from insomnia are called insomniacs and they can be of any age, sex, social class or nationality.

Some rare cases of insomnia renders victims unable to sleep at all. This condition is so rare that there are only 3 to 4 people known in the world at present to suffer from this condition.

What-is-insomnia in extreme? An example is a case of a man from San Francisco in 1986. He had not slept since World War 2. Taking sleeping pills only gave him slight drowsiness.

What-is-insomnia transient?

Insomnia lasting from a single night to a few weeks is referred to as transient. If episodes of transient insomnia occur from time to time, the insomnia is said to be intermittent.

Transient and intermittent insomnia generally occur in people who are temporarily experiencing one or more of the following:

stress

environmental noise

extreme temperatures change in the surrounding environment sleep/wake schedule problems such as those due to jet lags medication side effects

Treatment

Transient and intermittent insomnia may not require treatment since episodes last only a few days at a time. For example, if insomnia is due to a temporary change in a person's sleep/wake schedule, as with jet lags, the person's biological clock will often get back to normal on its own.

However, for some people who experience daytime sleepiness and impaired performance as a result of transient insomnia, the use of short-acting sleeping pills may improve sleep and next-day alertness.

As with all drugs, there are side effects. Not least it may be counter productive. The uses of over-the-counter sleep medicines are not recommended nor are herbs, which are notoriously unregulated. You just simply don't know what's in the bottle regardless what you read on the label.

Insomnia is classified as Transient if it lasts from one night to three to four weeks, but it becomes chronic when it persists almost nightly for at least one month.