Contents:
- Medical Video: Depression and Sleep
- The impact of severe stress can make you sleep badly
- The solution, stress must be overcome in order to sleep better
Medical Video: Depression and Sleep
Stress does not only create erratic chaotic thoughts and headaches. If you have difficulty sleeping or sleeping soundly for no reason lately, perhaps the culprit is stress that is left to continue to accumulate. Why, what does the impact of stress have to do with sleep problems?
The impact of severe stress can make you sleep badly
The body defines stress as a threat. So to defend themselves, the brain releases large amounts of stress hormones cortisol, adrenaline and norepinephrine into the blood. As a result, the heart rate increases and breathing becomes faster and shorter.
Stress hormones can also cause tension in the muscles of the body, resulting in you experiencing headaches, back pain, and pain throughout the body.
In the end, long-term stress can cause the body's resistance to decrease due to cortisol which inhibits the inflammatory response to fight foreign substances. That is why people who are stressed will be more prone to fall sick and recover.
All kinds of stressed and uneasy feelings coupled with the effects of stress on your physical body can eventually disrupt your sleep schedule. Usually, stress makes you:
- Sleep faster or slower than usual.
- It's hard to start sleeping.
- Sleep not soundly.
- Often wake up at midnight
- Wake up faster or later than usual.
- Sleep too long.
Ironically, a disturbed sleep schedule without consciously stressing you increases.Because the brain chemicals that trigger deep sleep are the same as those that tell the body to stop the production of stress hormones. When you are constantly stressed, the production of this chemical compound will be disrupted. As a result, you don't sleep well as long as you are stressed. Increasing stress will make your sleep pattern more messy, and so on.
The solution, stress must be overcome in order to sleep better
Over time, stress not only threatens your sleep schedule, but also undermines the overall health of the body. So to restore your sleep schedule as usual, you need to deal with that stress.
Find out first what causes you stress and then design a solution. Sometimes, the best stress repellent is to confide in the closest person. If you are stressed because of being haunted by an office project, "reward" yourself with vacation leave for a few days after all work is done. Turning your mind by doing things that you like, such as listening to music, traveling, drawing, gardening, or watching movies can also be a powerful stress reducer.
In addition to the above, exercise in the open can help the mind become more relaxed and relax the muscles that are tense due to stress. Exercise can also trigger sleepiness, so it helps you sleep better. Try to exercise at least two hours before going to bed so that you don't get tired and even have trouble sleeping.
Don't let the effects of stress disrupt your sleep schedule, for better health.
