Difficulty falling asleep or waking up easily

Introduction Difficult to fall asleep or wake up is the insomnia we usually say. Insomnia means not being able to sleep or being unable to stay asleep, resulting in insufficient sleep. Also known as falling asleep and maintaining sleep disorders (DlMS), it is a common disease that causes difficulty falling asleep for various reasons, sleep depth or frequency is too short, early wake up and lack of sleep time or poor quality. Insomnia often causes great pain and psychological burden to patients, and it can damage other aspects of the body because of the abuse of insomnia drugs. But there are also many ways to relieve and treat insomnia.

Cause

1, environmental reasons: a common sudden change in the sleeping environment.

2, individual factors: bad habits, such as drinking tea before going to bed, drinking coffee, smoking and so on.

3, physical reasons: In a broad sense, any body discomfort can lead to insomnia.

4, mental factors: including the excitement caused by a particular event, anxiety and opportunity to suffer from insomnia.

5. Emotional factors: Changes in mood that can be caused by emotional out of control. This change is especially manifested when emotions are unstable. It can be caused by certain unexpected events, such as special happy events or special sadness, anger, etc. Can cause insomnia. This kind of insomnia caused by unexpected events is only a phenomenon, which may be accidental and temporary; while more serious insomnia is a long-term phenomenon of poor sleep, their emotions are continuously in a low state, nervous, Emotions such as fear, worry, suspicion, anger, hatred, depression, anxiety, etc. not only occupy the sensory organs of their daytime, but they still can't stop at night.

6. The withdrawal response of sleeping pills or alcoholics.

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(l) Sleep disorders are almost the only symptoms, other symptoms are secondary to insomnia, including difficulty falling asleep, not sleeping deeply, easy to wake up, dreaming, waking up early, not easy to sleep after waking up, feeling unwell after waking, fatigue or Sleepy during the day.

(2) The above-mentioned sleep disorder is at least 3 times a week and is maintained for more than 1 month.

(3) Insomnia causes significant distress, or the efficiency of mental activity declines, or impedes social function.

(4) Not part of any physical illness or mental disorder.

Differential diagnosis

Insomnia usually refers to a subjective experience in which the patient's sleep time and or quality is unsatisfactory and affects daytime social function, including difficulty falling asleep, frequent awakening, and/or early morning wake up. It can cause symptoms such as fatigue, anxiety, general malaise, listlessness, slow response, headache, and inability to concentrate. Its greatest impact is mental, which can lead to schizophrenia. Common clinical types are: primary sleep disorders, secondary sleep disorders, and pseudo insomnia. Long-term sleep is difficult to fall asleep, sleep a while will wake up, sleep again is the same repeated wake up, and very annoying.

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