Anxiety Sleep Disorders

Sleep is the single most important human body activity whose malfunction or irregularity can disrupt just about anything in the body. The body relaxes when asleep and the mind recharges during that time. And that is the main reason why sleep is so important. All the bodily functions are carried out by the brain. The signals for hunger, fatigue, excitement and happiness are all controlled by various brain cells and the brain’s rejuvenating time is the time when you sleep your sound sleep. But there are times when, despite of being tired, exhausted and sleepy you can’t actually fall asleep. You can call it insomnia if you want, but even insomnia has its types. Not always a medical condition, insomnia is most frequently caused by stress and anxiety. Remember all those pre-result nights that you spent tossing and turning in your bed or the night when you waited for your beloved to respond to your proposal. You couldn’t really sleep a wink all night and the reason was anxiety. But anxiety disrupted sleep disorder is not always such a small affair.  Prolonged anxiety can lead to some serious sleep disorders which is why it is important to treat them right at the start. In the following lines, we have provided information on how to treat anxiety sleep disorders.

 

Please get rid of this most common myth that chocolate makes you feel better, hence you should have some when anxious or depressed. Anxiety is different from depression and can only get aggravated with the intake of chocolate, sugar or soft drinks, which make your body go “high alert”. Also, since you are dealing with a sleep disorder, it makes all the more sense to stay away from coffee and tea. 

 

There has never been a better way of dealing with stress or anxiety than the good old exercise. It not only distracts you with all the exertion, but also releases the happy hormones endorphins that rejuvenate your mind and make you de-stressed and refreshed. But make sure that you do an exercise that you typically enjoy. Indulging in exercises just for the sake of doing it can be pretty boring and hence not sustainable in the long run.

 

Most of the time anxiety in itself is not a cause but a consequence of a sleeping disorder. But whatever the case maybe, cause or consequence, anxiety and the resultant sleeping disorder can be effectively healed through meditation. You must try attending some basic yoga sessions to learn and understand the essentials of proper breathing and correct meditation techniques. The breathing exercises and meditation helps calm down a person’s anxiety and slow down his/her heart rate, thus inducing restful sleep.

 

This method is generally something that must be used only as the last resort and should never be tried without approaching a qualified physician. The medicines must be used cautiously and you must make sure that you do not get overtly dependant on them. Also, ask your doctor about the side effects that the medicines might cause.

 

Hypnotism can be quite effective a method for dealing with sleep disorders. When even the medication does not help, then it can be safely assumed that the problem is deeper than assumed. In such case, a hypnotherapy session can help find out the basic cause of the problem. And if the problem is not as deep, then the mind can be trained to fall asleep with the help of some triggers. These triggers can be anything from soft music, reading or a recording of the hypnotist’s voice. Using such triggers enables the mind to get distracted from all the anxiety and focus on the process of getting sleep or feeling sleepy.