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.