Steps to relieving Insomnia

Learning to cope with stress can help you to find ways to relieve insomnia. Stress is one of the leading causes of insomnia. Many people find it difficult to sleep at night and when they do fall a sleep they often wake up during the evening or early morning and find it difficult to fall back a sleep. Few people suffer acute insomnia while others suffer chronic insomnia. Chronic insomnia is far worse than acute insomnia, making the symptoms harder to treat than common acute insomnia attacks.

It is important to avoid caffeine before bedtime, since caffeine affects the nerves and makes it difficult for the body to relax. It is also important to avoid nicotine, since nicotine also affects the nerves. For the most part acute insomnia is often caused from stressfulness and changes in the weather or atmosphere. If a person is use to sleeping in a quiet, dark area and is, now sleeping in a noisy, lighted area this can cause a person to have difficulty falling a sleep. Medications can also cause a disturbance in sleeping patterns. For example, maybe you were giving a prescription from your doctor that has affected your sleep. Few people use over the counter supplements or aides to lose weight, and some of these too can cause a person to suffer acute insomnia.

The body is a temple. When the body experiences changes, the body will respond either negatively or positively and act out. If you are taking substances, chemicals or aides for dieting you body may be rejecting the change and responding by failing to sleep. Otherwise, if you have ongoing insomnia symptoms it is possible you have chronic insomnia, which is often caused from various medial and/or mental issues.

During a study, I analyzed ten children with mental disorders and underlying medical ailments, and five children with problems less the severity of the first ten. The first ten children had chronic insomnia and the problem was not stress per se, rather the problem was underlying diagnosis that created the insomnia. The second set of children suffered acute insomnia and I noticed there insomnia was coming from a desire. Rather, these children enjoyed playing Nintendo games ongoing, and often would stay up late hours to play the games. Over time the children struggled to sleep, however, when controlled the children were able to fall into a REM sleep without problem. The first ten children regardless of the control were unable to sleep.

What I observed was, that the first ten children needed both medical and psychological care to sleep peacefully, however a few of the children while medicated were still struggling with sleep. During the day hours, few of the children would often act out aggressively, or else showed difficulty in adhering to common authority and rules.

For the most part acute and chronic insomnia is treatable, however, I deduced that in some instances insomnia is ongoing and to solve the problem it will take long-term behavior and psychological treatment verses medications to treat the patient.

Thus, in conclusion of my studies I learned that aggressive music, violent/sexual television and video games play a large part in insomniac for children and few adults. Thus, to treat few children we are going to need more than medications since more children today are suffering Intermittent Explosive Disorders, Oppositional Defiant Disorders, Conduct Control Disorders (Antisocial Personality after the age of eighteen), Attention Deficit Disorders (ADHD/ADD) and various other disorders as a result of uncontrolled entertainment. Lack of discipline due to decrease in parental rights from the law is also playing a large role in how children behave today. The law allows children in my area to stay on the streets to midnight. This is the children curfew and when a parent attempts to tell them otherwise, "well the law says," these children stammer. Thus, insomnia is more than stress nowadays; it is coming from an uncontrolled and unruly system of rules.