The onset or persistence of sleepwalking in adulthood is common, and is usually not associated with any significant underlying psychiatric or psychological problems. Common triggers for sleepwalking include sleep deprivation, sedative agents (including alcohol), febrile illnesses, and certain medications. The prevalence of sleepwalking is much higher for children, especially those between the ages of three and seven, and occurs more often in children with obstructive sleep apnea. There is also a higher instance of sleepwalking among children who wet the bed. Sleep terrors are a related disorder and both tend to run in families.
Daydreaming happens more often than some. If daydreams are recognized and interpretation of a dreams happen just the slightest bit, it is possible to take advantage of the dream world and control it. Imagine feeling a constant drag every single day believe it or not people do feel like that every day because of a sleep disorder called insomnia. In an online article Andrew Weil, M.D explained “Insomnia is a relatively common sleep disorder, affecting about one third of the adult population worldwide.” (2011) In addition to not being able to sleep at night, insomnia will also cause drowsy effects and frequent falling asleep during the day. This will have a drastic affect if working is the activity or something that requires full attention.
CRITICAL ESSAY ON INSOMNIA Insomnia refers to the tendency to obtain a normal amount of sleep due to a multitude of causes. In the present day, the main cause to this symptom is the improper human lifestyle. Normal hours of sleep vary, ranging from nine to six or even less. A teenager needs, as much as nine hours; a child of twelve needs at least about ten hours; a child of four needs at least twelve hours; a year old infant, fifteen; at age six months, eighteen, and at one month, twenty-one hours. Nowadays many studies on insomnia manage to find the answers on the causes that lead to this health problem and the solution to overcome it.
Tension headaches are the most common type of headache that affects the majority of adults. In this paper I plan on discussing the definition of a tension headache, causes and triggers, muscles involved, treatment and techniques through massage therapy, and at home treatment the client can do for themselves. Tension headaches are usually mild to moderate pain often described as feeling like a tight band around your head. (Mayo, 2011) Also referred to as stress headaches they may appear “episodic” or periodically or “chronic” which is defined as occurring daily. Episodic tension headaches usually begin gradually, and will often occur later in the day.
Anxiety is made up of two components; Trait anxiety and State anxiety. Each with its own distinguished aspects (Speilberger, 1989; Beiling, Antony, and Swinson, 1998). State anxiety is defined as the apprehension or tension one is experiencing in the present moment as opposed to it being a more permanent personality trait (Gadberry, 2011). Complaints about sleep quality are common in society with Buysse, Reynolds, Monk, Berman and Kupfer (1988) estimating the figure to be between 15-35% of adults. The main problems reported being frequent sleep quality disturbances; difficulty falling asleep and difficulty falling asleep.
As I began searching for articles it was my goal to research the correlation of sleep disturbances in children and anxiety. Although I did find some articles pertaining to children’s nightmares and a possible ling to anxiety, however most articles were totally different. According to a study by Smedje, Broman, and Hetta (2002), the course and psychological correlates of disturbed sleep during middle childhood were investigated using parent’s responses to questionnaires. The test explored difficulties falling asleep, bedtime resistance, snoring, night-waking, and bed wetting. The conclusion was that, during middle-childhood, difficulties falling asleep, night-waking, snoring,
Zach Lieber Psychology Paper 12/2/12 Insomnia I have had Primary Insomnia for just about two years now. It comes and goes; some nights I will sleep just fine, others I won’t sleep at all. When my Insomnia would get bad, I wouldn’t sleep for weeks at a time. That was last summer, since then my Insomnia has cleared up, but it is still very hard to fall asleep sometimes. Insomnia is a sleep disorder characterized by the general inability to fall asleep, and stay asleep.
It is suggested that Teens get a healthy 8.5 - 9 hours of sleep a night as compared with eight hours needed for adults.. However Only 15 percent of teens get this required amount of shut eye. Teens also tend to have irregular sleep patterns across the week, they typically stay up late and sleep in late on the weekends, which can affect their biological clocks and hurt the quality of their sleep. A recent survey taken of 3,000 students at Providence high school showed that 85 percent of the students were not alert at the start of class because they weren’t getting enough sleep ("Are Teens Getting Enough Sleep?"). Sleep is essential for learning and memory.
According to Noland, Price, Dake, and Telljohann’s (2009) study on adolescent sleep behavior, teenagers need more sleep as the “majority of the participants indicated that not getting enough sleep had the following effects on them: being more tired during the day (93.7%), having difficulty paying attention (83.6%), lower grades (60.8%), increase in stress (59.0%), and having difficulty getting along with others (57.7%)” (p. 227). These stats prove that there are students who are experiencing the negative impacts from lack of sleep. Since the majority of the students in the study, 93.7%, state that they are tired during the day, and another 83.6% declare that they have concentration issues as a result, it is probable that this may apply to other students as well as the ones in the study. It is safe to conclude that these negative effects are reversible with healthier sleeping patterns. As part of the same (Noland and others, 2009) study, the conclusion of a later school day as a solution for teenagers was reached as “previous studies have determined that people who go to bed and rise at the same time each day, including the weekend, have a higher quality of sleep and are less likely to report sleep deprivation” (p. 229).
If a person is not able to get a full night's sleep after learning something new, they will not remember the new knowledge well. They will not fully understand the new ideas or task until they are able to get the optimum amount of sleep. For example, you might have been able to concentrate on writing an essay in an hour and a half when fully retested, but instead you take 3 hours to write an essay. That’s twice the time you would normally take, half of the time you spent on focusing and trying to think even harder while you were sleep deprived. You may have also had class that day and the next day you might not even remember what was talked about or learned in that class the day before.