Insomnia? Unable to get to sleep? Keep waking up?
The chances are that you are suffering from Insomnia
Sleep is a state of consciousness, which allows your body to rest and build up your strength. During asleep your body passes through various stages including light sleep, deep sleep and REM sleep
Insomnia is the interruption of this normal sleep pattern. For example, when you can't get off to sleep or you wake up after a few hours sleep.
Difficulties with sleep can manifest themselves in several ways including:-
Sleep onset insomnia - Difficulty in getting to sleep. This is more common in younger people.
Frequent nocturnal awakening - Waking in the night, more common in older people.
Waking early in the morning - the least common type of sleep disturbance.
Waking when pain or noise has disturbed you.
Symptoms include not feeling refreshed after sleep. You may have trouble
functioning normally during the day, feeling irritable, tired, and you
find it difficult to concentrate.
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