Lying in bed and waiting to fall asleep can seem like spending the night in slow-motion. The clock seems not to move, you hear each sound, from a dripping faucet to noises outside your window, and your pets being restless. Daytime events and worrying can take on many problems of their own. This all comes down to a horrible night’s sleep and sleeplessness.
Sleep disorders, from insomnia, sleep apnea, and sleep deficiency due to work schedules or caring for sick family members, take an enormous toll on sufferers and various individuals every day. The National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research estimates that 40 million Americans suffer from chronic sleep disorders and another 20 to 30 million experience sleep problems intermittently. Additionally, sleep disorders increase with aging, those suffering from chronic sleep disorders are expected to rise to 79 million and those suffering from intermittent problems to increase to 40 million within the next few years, as the U.S. population ages.
The costs of sleep-related problems are rising. The National Sleep Commission estimates that the direct costs of sleeplessness at $15.9 billion annually and another $100 billion or more in indirect costs, such as litigation, property destruction, hospitalization and death resulting from sleep disorders and sleep deprivation.
Sleep problems can be related to the overconsumption of caffeine or alcohol, side effects of medications, or can develop as secondary effects of another illness, such as arthritis, or a bladder condition, or a psychological disorder such as depression. But in a large number of cases, primary sleep disorders are the cause of sleeplessness or disrupted sleep.
Although more than 200 sleep disorders centers exist in the United States, experts estimate that 95 percent of those suffering from sleep disorders go undiagnosed, suffering needlessly from conditions that could be treated.
Listed below are several sleep disorders:
Obstructive Sleep Apnea: The temporary cessation of breathing due to the blockage of the upper airways during sleep. These brief obstructions result in many sleep interruptions each hour, which dramatically affects the quality of sleep, snoring, and losing your breath
Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder: Is the hard time individuals have waking up in the morning
Advanced Sleep Phase Disorder: Is when a person's biological clock shifts to earlier hours
Non-24-Hour Sleep-Wake Syndrome: Is when the person's biological clock is 25 hours or longer, meaning that sleep and wake times are continually getting later
Jet Lag: This occurs because of a time-zone change, jet lag is a disruption in sleep patterns following travel across time zones
Shift Work: This occurs from the constant changing of sleep patterns among day and evening. Night shifts has been linked to gastrointestinal and cardiovascular disease, increases in alcohol and tranquilizer use, and chronic sleep disorders
Insomnia: A sleep disorder in which you have trouble falling and/or staying asleep
Narcolepsy: Is characterized by extreme, overwhelming sleepiness during the day. It is caused by a dysfunction of the brain mechanisms controlling sleep and waking
Restless Leg Syndrome: This syndrome is characterized by aching, itching, tingling, and burning in the lower legs as the sufferer is falling asleep and typically requires him or her to get up and walk around for relief
Sleepwalking: Sleepwalking is a disorder that is most common in children, occurs during stages 3 and 4 of sleep, the deepest levels, and is thought to be caused by a partial arousal from deep sleep
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