Research Assignment on the Topic of Sleep or Sleep Disorders

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Sleep Disorders
The rate of sleep disorders around the world is very wanting. The number of people affected by sleep disorders is growing day in day out. Some of these people suffering from the sleep disorders are not even aware that they are suffering from a disorder, they assume it’s a normal occurrence. For instance, according to the National Commission on Sleep Disorder Research, approximately 40 million Americans suffer from chronic, long-term sleep disorders while another 20 to 30 million experience sleep problems occasionallyCITATION Smi06 \p ": HelpGuide.org" \l 1033 (Smith, Robinson and Segal : HelpGuide.org). The lack of sleep or the sleep disorders can cause serious medical problems to the human body. It can interfere with the moods of an individual, energy use in the body and ability to handle personal stress. Ignorance of the disease problems can lead to poor heath, weight gain, lack of concentration at work and strain at work. There are several causes of sleep disorders some of which are associated with the individual’s personal behavior and others are psychological or health related. Around the world, health and psychological conditions contribute to the sleep disorders, however, majority of the sleep disorders trace their roots to individual behaviors which cultivate climate for sleep disorders.
Insomnia is the most common type of sleep disorder that is characterized by the inability to get sleep at night or the lack of sleeping well at night. This disease is one of the sleep disorders that is mostly associated with the personal behavior which creates a conducive condition for the disorders. However, people are not very careful to note that they are suffering from the disorder. Others assume it’s a normal occurrence but in reality it’s very abnormal not to sleep at night or to sleep during the dayCITATION Smi06 \p ": HelpGuide.org" \l 1033 (Smith, Robinson and Segal : HelpGuide.org).
The most common behavioral causes of insomnia include working at night at home. This makes the mind to get preoccupied at the time one should be sleeping. Taking short naps during the day can also result to lack of sleep at night. Sleeping during the day to make up for the lost sleep of the night. This interferes with the human clock system that controls the sleep cycle of a human being. Periodic changes of the sleeping system of an individuals can also result to sleep disorder. This is very common for people who work in shifts that change every now and again. This causes confusions to the sleeping cycle and it usually takes time to adapt to the new system. Before one adapts to the new cycle then they are again shifted. Continues shifts at work schedules interferes with the sleeping cycle. In some cases, people may receive bad news which may be the cause of stress and lack sleep for the night. The person may also lack sleep the following day. The problem keeps on recurring and becomes a chronic disorderCITATION Smi06 \p ": HelpGuide.org" \l 1033 (Smith, Robinson and Segal : HelpGuide.org).
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