Friday, July 3, 2009

Insomnia is associated with paranoia

Insomnia and paranoia
Good dream ensures that people feel safer and have a positive view of the world. That insomnia is associated with paranoia was discovered by the British scientists who had studied the history of people with mental problems, and then compared them with healthy volunteers.
Experts have found that 70 percent of ordinary people who said they have some symptoms of paranoia have problems with sleeping. But again, all psychiatric patients who said to have felt persecuted had big problems with sleep also.
Scientists have discovered that the quality of sleep is important for mental and psychological health.
Sleep problems are connected with heart disease, and we know that workers who work in shifts have the greatest risk of disease and some types of cancer.
"A few nights without sleep can cause stress, blur thinking and detach us from the real world," said Doctor Daniel Freeman from the psychiatric institute of King's College in London. It is known that insomnia causes stress, nervousness, and this is all connected to paranoid thoughts.
Scientists have interrogated 300 healthy people and 30 patients from psychiatry. They discovered that those with greater sleep problems have a higher intensity of persecution thoughts and paranoia.

Monday, June 1, 2009

Insomnia is ...

insomnia and woman
Insomnia is insufficient sleep. It is divided by type of sleep disorder and duration. Insomnia is divided into: - difficulties while trying to go to sleep (insomnia at the beginning of sleep) - Frequently and constantly awakening (sleep maintenance difficulties) - Perpetual somnolence despite appropriate length of sleep

Duration is also very important. Temporary insomnia - insomnia, which lasts from one to several nights (within one episode) Temporary insomnia is usually a result of stress or change of time zones when you travel. Short-term insomnia lasts from several days to 3 weeks. Duration of such disorders are usually caused by prolonged stress, such as recovery from surgical procedures, or short-term illness, after a tough examination, the death of close persons, beginning to work on a new and responsible job, etc. Long-term insomnia lasts for months or years and it is usually a reflection of long-term psychiatric or medical disorders, medications, or primary sleep disorders. Long-term insomnia can be permanent, or with modifications of episodes of insomnia and proper sleep. A few nights of poor sleep, usually caused by stress or excitement, are a common and frequent phenomenon and leaves no lasting consequence to the man.
Long-term insomnia, however, has significant consequences and prevents a person to do daily chores, causes mood changes, disturbances in family relations and increases the risk of injury caused by reduced attention and reduced caution due to drowsy.