Insomnia
- Sleep Onset Insomnia: Consistently falling asleep too late or too early may indicate a sleeping disorder...
- Can't Return to Sleep: If you wake up at night and have trouble going back to sleep, you may have sleep-maintenance insomnia...
- Secondary Insomnia: When insomnia is a result of another medical condition, a drug side-effect, or another similar cause, it is known as secondary insomnia.
- CBT: Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) refers to a combination of several psychotherapeutic approaches designed to offer practical advice for serious problems...
- Light Box Therapy: Light-box therapy, sometimes just called light therapy, is a method of treating several different sleep disorders, specifically insomnia, delayed sleep-phase syndrome (DSPS), advanced sleep-phase syndrome (ASPS) and jet lag.
Causes of Insomnia
- Insomnia can refer to the inability to sleep well either intermittently or over a long period of time.
- There are many reasons people suffer from insomnia, and these reasons may be psychological or physical.
- If you suffer from chronic insomnia, you should see a doctor.
Insomnia is defined as the inability to fall asleep, and it can involve waking frequently during the night, with difficulty falling back to sleep, or having unrefreshing sleep. There are no guidelines for the number of hours slept or how long it takes to fall asleep that define insomnia. Those who suffer from insomnia may have excess tiredness during the day, lack of energy, difficulty concentrating and irritability.
