Assessing Your Sleep Problems
We all know how it feels to be sleepy, and how coping with the following day's stresses and strains can feel like you are wading through molasses, but most of us underestimate the far-reaching effects of sleep deprivation.
From waking, you may find the transition into day time mode more difficult to make.
You feel sluggish and disoriented, and simple tasks, such as making breakfast, may take longer than normal.
You may find yourself much more irritable and snappy with anyone who has the misfortune to cross your path.
Added to this, you may also feel sensation of light-headedness and your coordination is impaired - this is when you stub your toe or spill your coffee! Other changes in mood, such as sadness and lack of emotional resilience, become apparent.
You may become emotionally detached and, slowly, all your communication, social and memory skills start to deteriorate.
Over tired people lose their ability to make clear decisions and, as a result, often exhibit poor judgment by making snap decisions.
Some of the biggest manmade disasters of the last century were believed to be the result of human fatigue - the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident; the capsizing of the passenger car ferry Heral of Free Enterprise in the Belgian port of Zeebrugge; and the 1997 Korean Air flight 801, which crashed killing 228 people.
Paranoia, aggression and apathy may also make an appearance, which can obviously have serious effects on personal relationships.
Excessive sleep deprivation has quite radical effects on the body.
Experiments have shown that animals will eventually die if they are kept constantly awake, so it can be assumed that it would have a similar effect on humans.
From sleep deprivation experiments conducted on human beings, we know that the body will begin to exhibit the following range of symptoms, to some degree, after only a few days without sleep:
Going without sleep for only 21 hours is the equivalent to having 0.
8 per cent alcohol in your system, which is over the legal limit to drive in many countries.
As well as the physical similarities to being drunk, such as swaying and bumping into things, when you are tired you may also lose your social inhibitions, act overconfident or behave badly without any embarrassment, and be unable to communicate properly, including losing interest in sentences halfway through.
Strangely in libido, although no one knows quite why.
From waking, you may find the transition into day time mode more difficult to make.
You feel sluggish and disoriented, and simple tasks, such as making breakfast, may take longer than normal.
You may find yourself much more irritable and snappy with anyone who has the misfortune to cross your path.
Added to this, you may also feel sensation of light-headedness and your coordination is impaired - this is when you stub your toe or spill your coffee! Other changes in mood, such as sadness and lack of emotional resilience, become apparent.
You may become emotionally detached and, slowly, all your communication, social and memory skills start to deteriorate.
Over tired people lose their ability to make clear decisions and, as a result, often exhibit poor judgment by making snap decisions.
Some of the biggest manmade disasters of the last century were believed to be the result of human fatigue - the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident; the capsizing of the passenger car ferry Heral of Free Enterprise in the Belgian port of Zeebrugge; and the 1997 Korean Air flight 801, which crashed killing 228 people.
Paranoia, aggression and apathy may also make an appearance, which can obviously have serious effects on personal relationships.
Excessive sleep deprivation has quite radical effects on the body.
Experiments have shown that animals will eventually die if they are kept constantly awake, so it can be assumed that it would have a similar effect on humans.
From sleep deprivation experiments conducted on human beings, we know that the body will begin to exhibit the following range of symptoms, to some degree, after only a few days without sleep:
- Dry, itchy eyes
- Increased appetite
- Bad skin
- Impaired vision
- Chapped lips
- Increased pain sensitivity
- Drop in body temperature
- Disturbed breathing patterns
Going without sleep for only 21 hours is the equivalent to having 0.
8 per cent alcohol in your system, which is over the legal limit to drive in many countries.
As well as the physical similarities to being drunk, such as swaying and bumping into things, when you are tired you may also lose your social inhibitions, act overconfident or behave badly without any embarrassment, and be unable to communicate properly, including losing interest in sentences halfway through.
Strangely in libido, although no one knows quite why.
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