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Sleep disorders
Some believe that sleep disorders are always caused by psychological problems, but modern science has proven that there are many disorders that are caused by organic factors such as snoring, allergies, chronic iron deficiency or heart disease, and sleep disorders negatively affect the course of the patient's life. And its vital functions, which calls for giving it an important aspect and searching for it.
Insomnia
The definition of insomnia
It is the most common type of sleep disorder, and it means lack of sleep or difficulty sleeping, and it is called insomnia entering sleep or primary insomnia when a person has difficulty starting or continuing to sleep during the night, and it is called insomnia at the end of the night when a person wakes up early when he reaches the saturated level from sleeping; This type is most common in depressed patients.
Causes of insomnia
- Primary origin: excessive thinking and tension before bedtime, daily problems and stress, and avoiding remembrance of God Almighty.
- Insomnia caused by organic diseases: such as severe pain resulting from a health problem, nervous system diseases, heart disease, respiratory diseases, endocrine diseases, malnutrition, and advanced age.
- Insomnia caused by mental illnesses: such as depression, schizophrenia, anxiety and tension, panic, seizures, and psychological disorders that a person suffers from after severe accidents such as frightening dreams, for example.
Hypersomnia
Definition of hypersomnia
It is a state of extreme drowsiness that affects a person during the day, or a person sleeps for long periods during the day, or it takes a long time to move from sleep to wakefulness, and it is worth noting that there is a difference between those who suffer from hypersomnia, and between those who sleep a lot during the day as a result of not sleeping at night Or because the amount of sleep he got wasn't enough.
Causes of hypersomnia
- Primary origin: is due to the causes shown in primary origin for insomnia.
- Hypersomnia caused by mental illnesses: such as depression (another type that differs from the depression mentioned in insomnia), and bipolar disorder.
- Hypersomnia as a result of an organic disease: such as liver cell failure.
- Drug abuse: such as addiction to hypnotics, opiates and its derivatives.
Narcolepsy
It is a disorder that occurs to a person during a state of wakefulness, and exposes him to attacks from sleep that cannot be resisted during the day. It is not a common disease and affects certain families, which made some scientists believe that it has a genetic predisposition.
Sleep Apnea
It is an imbalance in the breathing process that causes it to stop during sleep, which leads to its appearance in the form of insomnia or an increase in sleep. Brain, and a combination of both types.
