Sleep Disoerder with E Adults

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SLEEP DISORDER WITH THE ADULTS
It can be described as a medical condition that adults that face. Sleep disorder can be defined as the disturbance of normal sleeping habits among adults. The disorder may involve difficulties that are associated with sleep. Most of the adults that are affected by sleep disorders may be because they have adopted a certain life style that is not the one they previously had. Difficulties that may be involved with sleep disorders may include: difficult to fall asleep and staying asleep among adult, sleeping abnormally past the sleeping time, falling asleep during inappropriate time such as during the day and abnormal behavior during sleep as sleepwalking but this is experienced by young children.
Sleep disorders can be classified into categories that they fall, they include: * Insomnia, this is the problem failing to fall asleep and staying asleep. * Daytime sleepiness, this is a problem of awake in the day time. * Sleep rhythm problem, this is a problem of sticking to a regular sleep schedule. * Sleep disruptive behavior however this actually happens to the young and may include sleep walking.
Among the classified four of the disorders three are common among the adults and in this paper we are going to look at the causes and effects of the disorders. We are going to discus each of the three categories and looking at the possible causes of the disorders.
Some of the disorders are caused by the changes of lifestyle among the adult and this are manageable since it is recommended that they stick to a simple life style or adopt another one.
In this paper we have sampled various causes under each cluster of sleep disorders among adults. Later on the paper also discusses the long and short term effects of the sleep disorders and also recommendation on how to effectively to curb the disorders.
CAUSES OF SLEEP DISORDERS AMONG THE ADULTS a) Insomnia
This is a sleep disorder that is characterized by difficulty in catching a sleep and if u actually fall asleep it is actually difficult to maintain the sleep, awakening early in the morning and the feeling by the body to stay awake. In this category there are some subcategories that are independent and could be discussed to see the difference between them, the disorders include psychological insomnia, delayed phase syndrome, hypotonic-dependent sleep disorder and stimulant-dependent disorder. As according to the definition of insomnia we can say that the entire sub cluster are the same but with different variation. Some are dependent on drugs and if not taken then there is no sleep for that period.
The causes of this disorder are many but we are going to discuss a few of them. Some of the causes are:
Physical illness is one of the causes that may make adult feel insomnia. Illness may cause someone to feel abnormal and the normal functioning of the body to change. Research has shown that many of the persons who are physically ill will spend a lot of time awake because of the pain that they bear which won’t allow them to sleep.
Depression is another cause of insomnia and this is common to adult because they have a lot of things to worry for. This may make most adults to be thinking a lot and give the brain no time to rest.
Poor sleeping environment may also make adult person experience insomnia for example if a person is residing near a club where there is noise at night might experience sleeping disorders. b) Day time sleepiness
This is also referred to hypersomnia. This is a problem of staying awake for a long abnormal time. This type of hypersonic includes;
Idiopathic hypersomnia, which is the excessive sleep that occurs without any proved reason. This may be triggered by the changes in the behavior of the body and reaction to different trends.
Narcolepsy, this can be described as the day time sleep attacks and excessive sleep; it is a central nerves system disorder. It is caused by reduced amount of protein called hypo-cretin made in the brain.
Obstruction and central sleep apnea; it may be referred to repeated pause of breathing during sleep time. This may be caused by the fact that the central nerves system may fail to send signals to the muscle that controls breathing. This might be common to the adult population since they are in their old age. c) Sleep rhythm problems
This happens when someone does not have a regular consistent sleep and wake up schedule. Adults do fall in this category of disorder due to their lifestyle their work schedule might make them not have a regular consistent sleep and wake up time. Many of the adults work schedule do not allow them to sleep early and wake up early rather than they sign an agreement that require them to answer the call of duty at any given time. Changes of time zones also make the adult group at a high risk to the disorder. The disorders that befall this category include: irregular sleep-wake syndrome, natural short sleeper and shift work sleep disorder.
Having seen all this causes of the sleep disorder among the adults we are also going to discuss the short and long term effects of the disorders. We are going to classify them into two namely short term effects and long term effects.
SHORT TERM EFFECTS
Forgetfulness, if an adult is faced with the problem of sleep disorder he might have a habit to forget so much of the things that he is involved in. This is the major short term effect of sleep disorder because most of the time will be spent trying to adjust to having sleep.
Drowsiness, this is a condition caused by little sleep and this also may lead to numerous mistakes in the day to day lively hood of a person. Among adults this might be a bad indication since they might not concentrate on their activities hence producing bad results of their own work.
Memory and cognitive impairment, adults will be in the most danger since this may indicate that they will not only be in a good condition to judge but also make sound decisions. It may also decrease their performance and general alertness.
Those are but a few short term effects of sleep disorders that may face the adult population in our country.
LONG TERM EFFECTS
High blood pressure, this is a serious medical condition that is caused by sleep disorders among the adult population. When someone does not have enough time of rest he overworks his body and makes the blood flow to be fast since it is active for a long time.
Psychiatric problems, this may include depression and other mood disorders. This may be caused by the memory lapse that might be contributed from short term effects of sleep disorder. An adult will start experiencing this if he has the problem for a long time and this might be solved through visiting a psychiatrist.
Poor quality life, a person will have a poor life since he will not have time to socialize with people since his time will be spent sleeping in the day time and making good of the night awake, hence making relationship with the people bad.
Having a summary of the possible causes and effects of sleep disorders, I can recommend that among the adults to make a change in the lifestyle they are living since it is the major contributor to the disorder. To those that have this disorder naturally are recommended to see various experts in the field so that they might get help since this disorders as we have seen leads to death.

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