1. Dyssomnia – Insomnia
By Thomas Titford

2. What is Dyssomnia/Insomnia?
Dyssomnia is a general term about sleeping disorders.
There are over 30 different versions of sleeping disorders and one of the more well known ones is Insomnia.
Insomnia is a disorder where the person has a constant lack of sleep.
Most people with insomnia find it hard to sleep but once asleep, can sleep through the night or can sleep but have trouble staying asleep
Every night they are unable to sleep and this can affect the performance of the person.
For example, Someone that needs to get to sleep and needs to wake up at 7:00 am. It could take hours before they are able to sleep properly but once asleep will be able to sleep comfortably until woken up.

3. Onset of insomnia and What happens when you have it
Some things during the beginning of insomnia include; Lack of sleep, fatigue, drowsiness during night and day, depression and other things of similar nature.
Temporary insomnia can be caused by stress, illness, pain, diets or travelling.
There are two types of insomnia. Onset insomnia and maintenance insomnia
Onset insomnia is where you have trouble falling asleep and maintenance insomnia is where you have trouble staying asleep.
Onset insomnia can cause a person to take hours at a time to fall asleep before finally resting.
Maintenance insomnia can cause a person to fall asleep but wake up after a short amount of time causing only small periods of sleep at a time

4. People at risk of insomnia
Women are much more at risk to insomnia due to hormones, menstrual cycle or menopause.
Elderly people above the age of 60 are at risk due to the deterioration of the brain over time
People with other mental disorders such as bipolar, anxiety, depression, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), Etc.
People experience large amounts of stress
Long distance travellers
Night Shift workers

5. Treatments
There are multiple types of treatments which include medication or behavioural strategies
Some strategies include bed restrictions where you only sleep on your bed, relaxation techniques, avoidance of caffeine or alcohol and cognitive behavioural therapy
Sometimes, insomnia shouldn’t be treated if it is only low grade or occasional insomnia as the negatives out weigh the positives.
All of the prescriptions have side affects but everyone reacts to them differently so it can be inaccurate to say you will have a specific side affect unless you have had experience with the drug before
There are other treatments but they aren’t likely to work such as yoga, herbal medicine or even acupuncture which all have claims to have worked but this may be due to the placebo effect where you believe it works and because you believed it worked your body fixes itself

6. Risk Factors Can be hereditary Jet lag (Mostly temporary insomnia)
Depression
Women more likely to get it
Traumas
Extreme down feelings

7. Bibliography
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