Sleep deprivation
Sleep deprivation is universal and so common. Sleep deprivation
affects millions of people allover the world due to the high
paced mechanical lifestyle, causing a lack of time to get the
sleep we always wanted. Sleep deprivation may also be due to
genuine sleep disorders, either due to some psychological
problems or chronic insomnia. Most of us are not really taught
how to sleep and rest better in our daily life. As a result the
total cost in lost man hours, production and precious lives are
so huge and often it defies human imagination.
Sleep deprivation means an overall deficiency in the necessary
amount of sleep, that a person is supposed to have in a day.
Sleep deprivation may occur due to diurnal changes in the mind
and body, or also due to extreme insomnia. It may also be
artificial, being induced by another person or your own baby.
Sleep deprivation is considered very dangerous and very
unhealthy and as such must not be tried by any person. However,
in some clinical cases of psychology, deprivation of sleep may
help patients with mental illness.
Sleep deprivation causes serious changes in body physiology and
mental composure; lack of sleep may result in irritability,
vision impairment, stuttering speech, momentary loss of
reasoning, confusions, hallucination and nausea. A consistent
lack of sleep or sleep deprivation may result in a condition
known as fatal familial insomnia and chronic dementia. Sleep
deprivation also leads to people becoming overweight and obese,
and such physical transformation will eventually lead to other
medical risks.
Recent research on sleep deprivation has indicated that sleep
deprivation shows the same hazardous effects as being in a
drunken state. Sleeping for less than 6 hours a night can affect
your coordination, judgment, mental alertness and reaction.
Sleep deprivation will also lead to muscular deficiencies, when
the mind gradually looses its control over the muscle, which
ultimately leads to Muscular-skeletal diseases.
Sleep deprivation may occur in cases of college going young
adults, when they try hard to wake during night to study for
their tests and examinations. A prolonged loss of sleep may
result in daytime lethargy and laziness, which eventually leads
to poor academic performance. Late night parties and bashes will
cause a serious loss in the total sleep budget, as many people
invariably get drunk and loose sleep in the process. Sleep is a
natural gift provided to maintain a clean body rhythm and
accurate biological clock; an intrusion in such a natural rhythm
is always undesirable and disadvantageous to our body.