Insomnia : The Cause And The Types

Insomnia is the sleeping trouble that mostly complained about. A research shows that about1/3 adults ever had insomnia every year. Insomnia is much found in those with depression, people in low economic and social life, the divorcee, those with chronic disease, and alcoholic.

Insomnia it self is defined as a perception in which a person feels lack of sleep, or feel the bad quality of sleep it self, though he or she actually has adequate opportunity of sleeping. Insomnia is different from that a person which indeed has a short period of sleeping (short sleepers). Short sleepers may have not long time of sleeping, but they do have a good quality of sleeping, and able to wake up fit by the next morning.

There are four types of insomnia seen from time based ;

Transient Insomnia

this kind of insomnia takes no longer than three weeks, and mostly caused temporary by stress. The patient of transient insomnia commonly have been able to detect it themselves, and do not need a special treatment of doctor or experts

Short-Term Insomnia

This may happen up to 1-6 months. Usually caused by a more persistent cause or stress.

Cyclinal Insomnia ( Recurrent Insomnia)

This type of insomnia is rarely met other than transient insomnia. The condition of cyclinal insomnia is where there imbalance between sleeping and waking. This circumstances can happen for temporer or else for a life time. Physiology change can be the cause of it, like premenstrual cycle, manic depressive, anorexia nervosa, or a certain kind of addiction like drugs, etc.

Chronic Insomnia ( Persistent Insomnia )

It takes in more than six months.

Some Factors that maybe the coz of Insomnia ;

• Emotion
  Transient and recurrent insomnia usually caused by emotional disturbance. Hiding grudge, fearful, or depression will cause insomnia.

• Habit
  Consuming caffeine, alcohol, over sleep, smoking before sleeping and chronic stress may cause insomnia.

• Environment
  Environment factor like noise, extreme temperature and environment change or jet lag may also cause Transient and recurrent Insomnia

• Age factor

Age over 50 will be susceptible for insomnia

• Sex
  Women are more susceptible of insomnia 20-50 % higher that to men. Medically, this is caused by menstruation cycles, where 50% women are reported to have stomachache during their menstruation, and this have been disturbing their sleep for 2-3 days in each of its cycles.

• Previous episode of insomnia

• Chronic disease that cause pain (like arthritis), confined movement, and trouble with respiratory (like COPD)

(various sources)

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