This Election Had Medical Consequences—And I Gave Them a Name
Published on November 14, 2016 A sleep disorder specialist coins the term “Election Dysthymia” to describe her patients who couldn’t sleep because of the election and the anxieties that underlay it, reports The Daily Beast. More times than I can count, I instructed my patients to discontinue watching politics or news well before bedtime, to disengage from their social media feeds and to create a sanctuary free of politics and media in order to regain some solace. Too many people were becoming both sleep deprived and angry or irritated and anxious at just the times they need to be able …
Senchyna: Exercise leads to better sleep.
by Kerry Senchyna – Maple Ridge News Maple Ridge posted Oct 12, 2016 at 12:00 PM Sleep disruption has a variety of causes which can include stress, anxiety as well as a condition called sleep apnea. Lack of quantity and quality of sleep has profound consequences, which range from attention deficits, reduced concentration and mental processing, mental fatigue, as well as mood disorders, such as depression. About 70 per cent of North American adults report having trouble sleeping. However, exercise has been shown in past studies to help people attain better quality of sleep and recently more information about the …
When worries stop sleep and then you worry about not sleeping.
By Cathy Johnson Posted yesterday at 21:07 Updated yesterday at 21:42 Being awake at an ungodly hour, your mind a tangle of anxious thoughts, is a wretched experience. Whether you’re thinking about work or family worries, the events of the day, or tasks you face tomorrow, it tends to kill off the chance of sleep. It’s a common problem, with “thoughts” second only to “needing to go to the toilet” in the list of sleep disrupters identified by the 20,018 people who completed the ABC’s Sleep Snapshot survey a few weeks ago. And when asked to describe in their …
This sleep scientist says you probably don’t have insomnia.
Julia Calderone | Feb 8, 2016, 2:20 PM Americans as a whole are really bad at sleeping. In a survey of more than 70,000 people in the US about a third of respondents said that they snoozed for less than seven hours per night. About 38% said that they’d fallen asleep during the day at least once in the month prior. It’s no surprise, then, that millions of Americans suffer from a wide range of sleep disorders. But their actual diagnoses may not be so straightforward. Many people who have trouble falling asleep and staying asleep assume that they have …
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