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Milton Erickson: "To those who complain of suffering from insomnia, I always say: Insomnia is a poor use of time ... those are hours of premium. When you are awake in bed, you begin to think of all the nice things, your body will get used to the bed, and fall asleep ".
CAUSES AND TYPES OF INSOMNIA
One can distinguish primary insomnia or inorganic which occurs when the patient is healthy and there are no apparent reasons that would justify insomnia and secondary insomnia. The latter occurs when the disorder is due to other physical illness or other psychological problems, such as depression, anxiety or bereavement.
Types of insomnia:
- Initial insomnia, when the patient struggles to fall asleep
- Central insomnia, characterized by frequent and sustained awakenings during the night
- Late insomnia, characterized by early morning awakening
- Subjective insomnia, characterized by perception of sleeping little and badly despite objective data proving otherwise.
WHAT 'INSOMNIA
Insomnia is defined as difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep or preparing to wake up too early in the morning.
Insomnia is not a disease, but is rather a symptom and then as a sign of an underlying unease. Often this discomfort may be caused by stressful situations, job dissatisfaction, lack of free time or painful situations and difficult to deal with such separations or serious bereavements. Often a wrong style of life such as unhealthy diet, lack of physical activity and the maintenance of bad habits like going to sleep in the ever-changing times, or take naps during the day, this can contribute to insomnia .
INSOMNIA TREATMENT
After making an accurate diagnosis of the type of sleep disorder, it follows that in less serious cases just intervene on the habits and lifestyles to reduce or eliminate the problem. In severe cases, during the course of treatment will be particularly important to go to look for the reasons of maintenance insomnia.
It is crucial to emphasize that fact, insomnia is not a disease in itself, but only the signal of an underlying discomfort, and as such appears to be a clear need to go to investigate in depth beyond the symptom.
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