Cause and Effect : The mystery of insomnia
Insomnia comes in many shapes and forms from intermittant to chronic, and with many different causes. This is can make this condition so frustrating – there could be many interconnecting causes of your insomnia and the resolution of just one cause may not resolve all the symptoms of insomnia.
However, the more you learn and take action, the more empowered you are to apply the right tactics and bring relief.
Here are the 10 most common causes of insomnia – remember you may relate to more than one of these, but use this as a guide to unravel the mystery of your insomnia and seek the best course of action for you.
1. Insomnia can be triggered by an major event in your life:
- An acute illness.
- Injury or surgery.
- The loss of a loved one.
- Job loss.
Or, could be caused by a more minor event such as:
- Extremes in weather.
- An exam at school.
- Traveling.
- Trouble at work.
2. Female hormones are also a leading cause of insomnia. This can come up in a number of different situations such as:
- During menstruation
- First and Third trimester of pregnancy
- First phases of menopause
3. Environmental factors such as light, noise and uncomfortable temperatures cause sleeplessness.
4. Your partner’s sleep habits can also cause you to have insomnia. In one 1999 survey, 17% of women and 5% of men reported that their partner’s sleep habits impaired their own sleep. Snoring can certainly be a factor in a partner’s insomnia. In fact, in the same survey 44% of men and 36% of women reported snoring a few nights a week and of those who snored, 19% could be heard through a closed door.
5. Caffeine and Nicotine can also cause wakefulness.
6. Childhood experience : sometimes the inability to sleep dates back to childhood when parents used various threats to force their children into sleep for which they may not have been ready.
7. Pain and discomfort from an injury, illness, or disability can also impair sleep. Among the many medical problems that can cause insomnia are: allergies, arthritis, cancer, heart disease, gastro reflux disease, hypertension, asthma, and ADHD.
8. And, some medications have insomnia as a side effect.
9. A large percentage of chronic insomnia cases prove to have a psychological or even psychiatric basis. The disorders that most often cause insomnia are the following: anxiety, depression, and bipolar disorder
10. Anxiety accounts for almost 50 percent of the cases of chronic insomnia. Feeling uptight and anxious can keep you from relaxing enough to go to sleep
There are quite a few tactics to help you resolve many of the causes listed here in “Sleeping Secrets Exposed”, so grab a copy if you haven’t had read it yet. Some of these causes require professional healthcare assistance, so please seek help if you need it.
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