Do you have difficulty sleeping at night? Do you wake up at the middle of the night and are unable to fall back to sleep? When you wake up, do you feel tired instead of feeling refreshed? If you answered yes, to all three questions, then you might be suffering from insomnia.
Insomnia is a condition wherein a person has difficulty going to sleep or maintaining sleep.
This affects people of all ages especially adults, though children are also prone to insomnia.
Insomnia is divided into three classes and these are transient insomnia wherein it last for one week or less.
Insomnia that lasts for more than one week but less than three weeks is called short-term insomnia.
Long-term insomnia on the other hand lasts for more than three weeks.
There are many reasons why a person may suffer from insomnia.
Among these are: Stress - If you had a stressful day and your brain is still thinking about that then you will have difficulty in sleeping, since before you can sleep, your brain needs to slow down first.
Irregular Sleeping Schedule - If you do not have a daily regular sleeping schedule perhaps due to an irregular working shift, then this can be one of the causes why you are having difficulty sleeping.
Jet Lag - If you are quite the traveler then perhaps jet lag may be the cause since you travel across time zones and you have to adapt your body clock to the time zone of the current country that you are in.
Alcohol Intoxication - Alcohol intoxication causes dehydration to our body, it may put you to sleep fast but it will not be a restful sleep and you will keep waking up because our body needs water.
Lack of Exercise - Exercise can actually relax your body especially if it is light before bed time.
Remember if your mind cannot relax then you will have a difficult time finding the sleep that you need.
There are many more reasons for insomnia, and those reasons have something to do with the lifestyle that people adopt.
You might wonder why there are people who do not have a problem in getting a restful sleep, well; it is because they have a very healthy lifestyle.
They do not eat heavy meals before bedtime, exercise is part of their routine and they do not have vices such as smoking and others.
So, if you do not want to suffer from insomnia consider changing to a healthy lifestyle as well.