Sleep Disorders: Explanations of Insomnia

Explanations for Insomnia

• Short-Term Insomnia
• Some suffer difficulties in sleeping for short periods - few days or weeks. Tend to be caused by immediate worries.
• Long-Term (chronic) Insomnia
• Chronic Insmnia describes difficulties lasting over a month.
• Primary Insomnia
• Occurs when a person is having sleep problems that are not directly associated with any other health condition or physical cause.
• Individual may have developed bad sleeping habits which causes insomnia.
• Insomnia persists after the initial cause because of an expectation of sleep difficulty - leads to anxiety.
• Secondary Insomnia
• When a person is having sleep problems because of something else.
• Single underlying medical, psychiatric or environmental cause.
• Insomnia is a sympton of the main disorder.
• Insomnia is a characteristic sympton of illnesses.
• Typical of people who do shift work or who have circadian rhyth, disorders, phase delay synfrome, abnormal biological rhyht,s cause sleepiness at innapropriate times. 
• Discomfort during sleeping can also cause insomniea by oler people; reduced…