What are the 3 types of insomnia and their treatment?

 

Are you unable to sleep in night? After trying everything you are awake in the night and everyone in your home are sleeping peacefully? You need to revive your sleep and analyse your situation immediately. Sleep is an integral part of our day to day life. It restores the body energy and will help to keep the mind in stable condition. Also, taking enough sleep on a daily basis helps in enhancing cognitive abilities and brain functions. We might not know but sleep is very vital for our body’s normal functioning. When you sleep, your body repairs itself on cellular levels. This is how taking enough rest is quite important.

If you are thinking that sleep is luxury for you then certainly you are suffering from insomnia. Insomnia is a sleep issue which alters the energy restoration process. If the person is unable to sleep in the night time then the person is suffering from insomnia. There may be various reasons for insomnia. According to a research at around 50 percent of people across the world suffer from occasional insomnia; mainly this could be due to day-to-day stress. It is said that women suffer more from insomnia as compared to men. Sleep experts suggest the reason behind this as the stress, menopause and various other mental conditions. Insomnia could be due to pain and other medical condition also. This could occur for few days or few weeks resulting in daytime sleepiness. Doctors suggest taking care of situation as soon as possible or else this would lead to serious consequences.

There are different types of insomnia however we will discuss three main types of insomnia in this article. We are also going to learn about available treatment options.

Below are the major three forms of insomnia:

1.      Acute Insomnia

This type of insomnia lasts for few days to few weeks. This is the most common type of insomnia occurring in people. Sleep experts suggest that this type of insomnia due to stress mainly. So it is referred as the adjustment insomnia. In case of stressful situation like death of the loved one or loss of job can be cause of acute insomnia. Apart from this environmental factors like excess light and noise in room can hamper the sleep pattern. Jet lag is also a reason for acute insomnia. Jet lag happens when the person travels one-time zone to a different time zone, so the body takes time to adjust to the present time zone.

2.      Chronic insomnia

In this condition the person is unable to sleep for few weeks altogether. This could extend till a month also so doctor intervention becomes necessary in such cases. Chronic insomnia is said to be associated with some underlying condition. A common cause of this type of insomnia is comorbidity. Medical conditions like diabetes or depression anxiety can lead to chronic insomnia. Apart from this repetitive jet lag and rotating shift work can also hamper the sleep patterns of the person.

3.      Onset insomnia:  In this the person is unable to initiate the sleep. This type of insomnia can be chronic and acute. According to research it is suggests that psychological and psychiatric issues are to be blamed for this type of insomnia. External factors like caffeine and nicotine inhibit the sleep hence making it difficult to be in restful position.

 What are the treatment options?

There are numbers of therapies related to the insomnia. However cognitive-behavioural therapy tops the list because it gives relaxation and relief from anxiety and stress. Sleep hygiene should be maintained wherein proper bed and comfortable clothes will help to get better sleep.