Prolonged insomnia due to nervous breakdown

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Prolonged insomnia can be caused by many causes, the most common of which is a nervous breakdown. To improve insomnia due to nervous breakdown, in addition to complying with the doctor's regimen, patients need to implement other lifestyle changes.

1. What is Chronic Insomnia?

Insomnia is a common symptom when a person has difficulty getting normal sleep. Insomnia includes: difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or staying awake throughout the night; or having trouble getting back to sleep after waking up in the middle of the night; or in severe cases, a person cannot sleep all night.
Acute insomnia is very common, lasts for days or weeks and often occurs during times of stress or life change.
Chronic insomnia is difficulty sleeping or tossing more than three nights a week for three months or more. Insomnia is often accompanied by headaches, dizziness, nervousness, forgetfulness, or feelings of nervousness and anxiety. It is mainly seen in people with nervous breakdowns, or during menopause.

2. Classification of Chronic Insomnia

Chronic insomnia is divided into 2 types: primary and secondary.
Primary insomnia is not caused by other medical conditions or medications, and scientists don't fully understand what causes it. Specialized MRI scans are being used to study primary insomnia. Secondary insomnia is insomnia caused by other conditions or problems such as emotional stress, trauma, and ongoing health problems; due to certain lifestyle influences; or the patient is taking certain medications and therapies.

3. Prolonged insomnia due to nervous breakdown

Nervousness is a neurological dysfunction caused by overwork of the brain. This condition usually develops after a patient has experienced a traumatic event and often worsens if left untreated.
Insomnia is one of the common symptoms of nervous breakdown. In some cases, debilitated people wake up many times during the night, causing less sleep than usual.

4. What should be done to improve insomnia due to neurasthenia?

People with a nervous breakdown should go to a mental hospital for medical examination and specific advice, not treatment according to advice.
To improve insomnia compared to neurasthenia, besides treating according to the doctor's regimen, you should also improve the quality of sleep with the following measures:
Should go to bed and wake up at the same time. fixed time. In addition, should limit napping or napping only for 15-20 minutes at noon. Do not use electronic devices before going to bed. Avoid drinking caffeinated beverages and smoking in the evening. Exercise regularly, but do not practice close to bedtime because this can make it difficult to sleep, so exercise at least 1-2 hours before bedtime. Don't eat much at the end of the day. You can eat a snack or drink a glass of warm milk before going to bed. Make sure the bedroom is dark, quiet, and the room temperature is not too hot or too cold. If you can't sleep and don't feel drowsy, sit up and read a book or do something soothing until you feel drowsy. Don't oversleep on weekends: Oversleeping on weekends can make it hard to fall asleep on other days of the week. When suffering from insomnia, patients need to seek medical attention early for treatment in the first months, when symptoms of insomnia begin. Early treatment will ensure safe treatment results and avoid long-term consequences.

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