Represents the abnormal lack or lack of sleep in a person, as well as the difficulty of staying asleep during the night or waking up very early, which means that the person does not sleep, sleeps very little or sleeps very badly, causing the person feel tired when getting up.
Although, the amount of sleep necessary for the body to recover its energy varies greatly according to each person, since babies can sleep 18 hours a day, there are people who sleep between 5 and 6 hours, others between 7 and 8 and others that sleep up to 9 and 10, This disorder is more frequent in the population than you can imagine, the importance is in the quality of it, that is, beyond comparing the quantity, it is to know how many hours your body needs to rest, because if rest is not achieved, there are consequences.
Insomnia has three ways of presenting itself or is divided into three types:
- Onset insomnia: it is the difficulty of falling asleep before thirty minutes, after lying down.
- Maintenance insomnia: it is the inability to stay asleep, which is reflected in the constant awakening during the night.
- Insomnia due to early awakening: refers to waking up before actually resting, commonly between 3 and 4 hours after starting sleep and not being able to reconcile it.
Also, according to its duration in time, insomnia has a classification.
If it occurs for 4 weeks or less, it is in the presence of acute insomnia, if the duration extends between 4 weeks and 6 months it is a subacute insomnia and if it persists for more than 6 months, it is in the presence of chronic insomnia.
The list that makes up the causes of insomnia is very extensive, since it can be manifested by bad habits of the person, by the use of drugs, alcohol or medications, by other physical or mental health conditions and even by pregnancy or pregnancy. menopause.
This sleep disorder is more frequent in the world population than is believed, some specialists have dared to quantify the number of people affected, speaking of estimates between 10 and 15% of adults who suffer from chronic insomnia, between 25% and 35% have had temporary or occasional insomnia and 50% have had insomnia at some time in their life.
In this sense, insomnia can have various consequences, since feeling tired or distracted during the day can cause car accidents because the person falls asleep while behind the wheel. In addition, it can cause a bad mood or apathy that hinders social, family and work relationships.
This anomaly can appear at any age, even from childhood you can suffer from insomnia.
