The Affects Of Insomnia
Insomnia has a range of negative effects on both your body and mind.
This is because your body needs sleep in order to survive.
Sleep repairs and replenishes your body so that you have the energy and health to continue functioning on a daily basis.
If you don't get the required amount of sleep you not only feel terrible and have trouble coping, but it has been scientifically proven to detrimentally affect your health.
One of the areas that doesn't function properly when you are sleep deprived is your immune system.
What does this lead to? Sickness and increased health concerns which in turn put a strain on our already overburdened health system.
We have looked at how insomnia effects out health, but what about the strain it puts on the work place.
An increasing amount of people are taking 'sick' days due to sleep deprivation and with an estimated 64 million people in the USA suffering from insomnia this is a major concern.
A day off work here or there mightn't seem like much, but if you multiple that by half of all employees in every company in every town in every state all around the country that are regularly taking days off work due to sleep deprivation, it changes things dramatically! Who pays for this? You guessed it - us! This is becoming a cost that companies factor into their figures, and then pass onto you the consumer.
As you can see there are both social and financial areas that are impacted by the increasing number of people suffering from insomnia.
Unless insomnia is addressed and action is taken to reduce the amount of people suffering from it statistics have show that the situation will only continue to get worst.
If you feel like you have insomnia then the best thing for you to do is to get some help.
With help you will start to feel better and be able to live a fuller, healthier life.
This is because your body needs sleep in order to survive.
Sleep repairs and replenishes your body so that you have the energy and health to continue functioning on a daily basis.
If you don't get the required amount of sleep you not only feel terrible and have trouble coping, but it has been scientifically proven to detrimentally affect your health.
One of the areas that doesn't function properly when you are sleep deprived is your immune system.
What does this lead to? Sickness and increased health concerns which in turn put a strain on our already overburdened health system.
We have looked at how insomnia effects out health, but what about the strain it puts on the work place.
An increasing amount of people are taking 'sick' days due to sleep deprivation and with an estimated 64 million people in the USA suffering from insomnia this is a major concern.
A day off work here or there mightn't seem like much, but if you multiple that by half of all employees in every company in every town in every state all around the country that are regularly taking days off work due to sleep deprivation, it changes things dramatically! Who pays for this? You guessed it - us! This is becoming a cost that companies factor into their figures, and then pass onto you the consumer.
As you can see there are both social and financial areas that are impacted by the increasing number of people suffering from insomnia.
Unless insomnia is addressed and action is taken to reduce the amount of people suffering from it statistics have show that the situation will only continue to get worst.
If you feel like you have insomnia then the best thing for you to do is to get some help.
With help you will start to feel better and be able to live a fuller, healthier life.
