Insomnia

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Memory loss can be a huge part of insomnia and cause even more problems down the road. Other things like not being as sharp and aware as usual can also happen because of the lack of sleep. Day time sleepiness or laziness is a direct result of not sleeping causing you to be tired in your day to day activities making it hard to concentrate or pay attention. Memory loss causes more stress because you are constantly thinking about something you may have forgot about for no reason. Although it is unknown if the mental health condition led to insomnia symptoms in college students or if insomnia symptoms resulted in increased mental health condition, it’s clear that there is a problem both in the general public and college population.

With the loss of memory symptoms may get worse. When memory is loss you could forget to do things like send an important email to the boss or forget a homework assignment that was due that day. Tasks also become more difficult to take on because the lack of sleep makes you have no motivation and trouble concentrating on things other than our worries about not sleeping. Falling sleep at work can cause wright ups, temporary suspension, or even an injury if your job is a truck driver and you fall asleep behind the wheel.

Insomnia is not an easy thing to deal with and causes so much stress and difficulties in one’s life. Causes lack of sleep, loss of memory, hard time focusing and staying awake, and even led to use of drugs or other things to help sleep or take the edge off when irritable. Diseases and things like restless leg syndrome can cause lack of sleep or constant waking up at night. It could be as easy to get rid of it as eating better before bed and letting past events be in the past. Insomnia can cause people to get hurt due to lack of sharpness or staying awake.

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References

“As many as 16% to 23% of young adults report insomnia symptoms” (Bixler, Vgontzas,

Lin, Vela-Bueno, & Kales, 2002

“Students reported sleeping an average of 6.79 hours on a typical school/work night, and 9.30 hours when they did not have school/work the next day” (JOURNAL OF AMERICAN COLLEGE HEALTH, VOL. 59, NO. 2)