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How Depression and Insomnia Deprives Sleep

1 Comment Published by Brian Yalung November 21st, 2007 in Health Issues, Insomnia, Sleep Issues.

Individually, they are known to be contributing factors towards sleep deprivation that people experience today. But together, a person can just imagine the impact and discomfort that they can make.

Insomnia is a symptom not a separate disorder. A complaint of this needs a clinician to inquire further to disclose the underlying etiology of the complainant. Depression, conversely, is a serious medical condition that involves the body, mood, and thoughts. The main three depressive disorders are Major depressive disorder, dysthymic disorder and bipolar disorder. Source: Depression and Insomnia Relationship

With this in tow, we can see how people have to deal with having to deal with factors of sleep deprivation. Both have a lot of factors to consider such as the mental and environmental factors of where they are sleeping.

We all think we know everything about insomnia and depression. But put them together in one case and you will find complications on conclusions and looking for alternatives on how to deal with sleepless nights we all hear of.

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Sleep Issues Caused by Asperger Syndrome

0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung November 19th, 2007 in Health Issues, SLEEP News, SLEEP Psychology, Sleep Disorders.

Sleep is something important and this covers all people of any race. While we all know of the growing concern for this issue, some are tied up with actual problems going on around kids. One is that of Asperger Syndrome, a known autism spectral disorder.

While we see autistic children differently, they are still human and experience the same problems we normally encounter. Just like us, they have their own share of sleep deprivation problems, probably worse if they are not given the same attention that we put for normal people with sleep issues.

Asperger Syndrome (AS) is one of several autism spectrum disorders characterized by difficulties in social interaction and by restricted interests and activities. With AS, there is no general delay in language or cognitive development. Researchers from Italy looked at sleep and children with AS. It is the first known study of its kind.

For the study, researchers focused on eight children with AS, 10 children with autism and 12 healthy children. Parents filled out several questionnaires and the children underwent several sleep tests.

Researchers report 50 percent of children with AS were reluctant to go to bed, 75 percent needed the television or a light on in the bedroom, 87 percent had difficulty getting to sleep and 75 percent fell asleep sweating. Study authors also found half of the children did not feel refreshed in the morning and 87 percent had difficulty waking up in the morning and 87 percent felt sleepy during the day.

Source: Sleep Problems Prevalent in Children with Asperger Syndrome

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Sleep Deprivation produces Dilapidated Lives

0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung November 13th, 2007 in Health Issues, How to sleep better, Sleep Disorders, Sleep Issues.

Sleep is essential to our health and such has been addressed as something costly if people continue to suffer sleep deprivation syndromes. We are usually not ourselves when we lack sleep and most of this are attributed to some factors such as:

Work
Stress
Personal Health Abuse
Jagged Thoughts

Of course, these are usually part of our daily routine but leaving them as they are is no excuse to sacrifice sleep in their favor. If there are fighters in all of us, then this is one aspect to which we should consider putting value in health and sleep.

Sleep deprivation is an illness we can all manage individually or through the help of sleep professionals. We just have to inject in our heads that sleep is more than just losing rest.

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Look Out for a Cholesterol Drug called Zocor

1 Comment Published by Brian Yalung November 9th, 2007 in Health Issues, SLEEP News, Sleep Disorders.

The thing about sleep deprivation is that they are termed as mental problems. However, sleep problems can also be solicited from pills and drugs we take that aim to solve various health problems as well.

Health issues such as high cholesterol levels usually need to be treated. Before serious surgeries are considered, people will be asked to take anti-biotics or prescribed medicine before serious medication would be resorted to such as Zocor, a cholesterol drug prescribed today.

In most cases while one aspect of health issues are being treated, another is being harmed. This is where other health issues such as sleep disturbances may crop up, making it another health problem that needs to be addressed.

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Why do Most Elder Couples Sleep Separately?

1 Comment Published by Brian Yalung October 10th, 2007 in Health Issues, How to sleep better, SLEEP News, Snoring.

The older you get, the more chances you would find sleeping separately a possibility. In fact it is a truth since problems when sleeping together such as snoring may make one of the partners more or less irritated and uncomfortable when sleep time comes.

Such an issue stems from the fact that in the course of getting older, some health-related concerns such as snoring becomes evident for sleep deprivation issues. Hence for people who may want to put more concern on their health as they grow older, it could very well cover areas such as snoring and overall health as well.