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Sleep Disorder and Mental Health
Sleep insufficiency or not getting enough sleep may lead to mental or physical fatigue. Prolonged sleep deficiency can cause chronic diseases or serious mental illnesses such as hypertension, diabetes, depression, and obesity, as well as from cancer, increased mortality, and reduced quality of life and productivity.
Different types of societal factors such as round-the-clock access to technology and work schedules may lead to sleep disorders or lack of sleep.
Know Here Some Sleep Enhancing Techniques For A Good Night Sleep:
1. Avoid Consuming Caffeine after Noon
Caffeine is a stimulant which keeps you awake, thus avoid consuming any drink that has caffeine such as tea, coffee, cola etc. before 4 to 6 hours of going to bed.
2. Make the Environment Sleep Inducing Keep your bedroom’s environment quiet, dark, and cool this will help you strengthen your mental connection between your bedroom and sleep.
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Set a Pre Sleep Routine
Avoid activities that make you feel stressed such as doing office work, discussing emotional issues as any kind of physically and psychologically stressful activities can cause the body to produce the stress hormone cortisol, which increases alertness.
4. Fixed Biological Clock Try to stick as closely to your routine on each day either its weekend or a weekday. Going to bed and waking up at same time will help your mind clock to feel sleepy at the same time.
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Lighten Up On Your Evening Meals
Taking heavy meals such as double cheese pizza at bedtime can make you insomniac so avoid taking heavy meals before bed.
6.
Turn Around Your Clock
When you are lying and feeling hard to fall sleep watching the clock as the minutes pass will only make you feel stressed and anxious. So put your clock away and avoid thinking about the time.
7.
Deep Breathing
For a peaceful and restful sleep practice some deep breathing exercises and meditation before going to bed.
Counselling for stress or mental health counselling can help you identify the root cause of your sleep concerns, to create a treatment plan accordingly.
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