Sleep Deprivation
Sleep deprivation
Sleep has an enormous effect on our daily life and health. A full night’s sleep is needed to perform well at work or school and maintain a healthy body. The old cliché of eight hours of sleep per night rings in everyone's mind but is ignored by most. Age is the determining factor for how much sleep a person needs per night; different people require different amounts of rest a night. In today’s society people, go through days yawning, fighting to stay awake and indulging in many cups of coffee, as caffeine helps keep them awake. When you ask them the cause of their restlessness it is the same answer “lack of sleep” and their reason for lack of sleep is the “lack of time” to rest their bodies and minds adequately. Sleep deprivation has been seen to peak during college time as students stay up all night to study, and sometimes to party. It can sometimes be self-imposed due to a lack of desire to sleep and the habitual use of stimulant drugs like cocaine, amphetamines which are highly used by college aged students. Transition from high school to college can also be problematic for the majority of students, most of their days were on a very structured schedule, but moving on to college where you are relying entirely on your ability to prioritize, and this can be extremely hard on freshmen struggling to balance their schedules. As years have gone by the economy has dropped making the standard of living even more expensive. This has forced most people to work two or more job per day. To be able to sustain themselves and their families comfortably. For a person with two full time jobs of eight hours, works in total sixteen hours per day leaving them with eight hours in a day, this excluding the time in which they commute to and from work, leaving very little time for sleep. Parenting is also one of the causes of sleep deprivation, having a child between the ages of one day to one year, as children that age tend to stay
Sleep has an enormous effect on our daily life and health. A full night’s sleep is needed to perform well at work or school and maintain a healthy body. The old cliché of eight hours of sleep per night rings in everyone's mind but is ignored by most. Age is the determining factor for how much sleep a person needs per night; different people require different amounts of rest a night. In today’s society people, go through days yawning, fighting to stay awake and indulging in many cups of coffee, as caffeine helps keep them awake. When you ask them the cause of their restlessness it is the same answer “lack of sleep” and their reason for lack of sleep is the “lack of time” to rest their bodies and minds adequately. Sleep deprivation has been seen to peak during college time as students stay up all night to study, and sometimes to party. It can sometimes be self-imposed due to a lack of desire to sleep and the habitual use of stimulant drugs like cocaine, amphetamines which are highly used by college aged students. Transition from high school to college can also be problematic for the majority of students, most of their days were on a very structured schedule, but moving on to college where you are relying entirely on your ability to prioritize, and this can be extremely hard on freshmen struggling to balance their schedules. As years have gone by the economy has dropped making the standard of living even more expensive. This has forced most people to work two or more job per day. To be able to sustain themselves and their families comfortably. For a person with two full time jobs of eight hours, works in total sixteen hours per day leaving them with eight hours in a day, this excluding the time in which they commute to and from work, leaving very little time for sleep. Parenting is also one of the causes of sleep deprivation, having a child between the ages of one day to one year, as children that age tend to stay