Contents:
- Medical Video: Anxiety : How to Sleep With Severe Anxiety
- Why do humans have to sleep enough?
- Sleep is enough to help the brain manage stress and psychiatric disorders
- What happens if you often lack sleep?
Medical Video: Anxiety : How to Sleep With Severe Anxiety
In the midst of intense daily activities, many people underestimate the importance of getting enough sleep. If you have not been drowsy or fatigued, you may delay the time to sleep. Well, unwittingly lack of sleep can interfere with your mental health. Especially if you are stressed, anxious, or hit by psychiatric disorders such as depression.
To understand how to sleep enough can be the key to the success of managing stress or psychiatric disorders, see the following review.
Why do humans have to sleep enough?
Humans need sleep because that's when your body repairs all types of damage, both physically and mentally. Think of it as if your body is a car that has to take a break and enter the workshop for repair. Without adequate repair, of course you cannot function normally.
Sleep is enough to help the brain manage stress and psychiatric disorders
When sleeping, humans will enter five important stages. The first stage is the work of the brain to slow down so that the body relaxes. In the second stage, you usually can't hear or respond to the sounds around you because your mind has "moved" into the subconscious.
Well, in the third and fourth stages of your body will do various types of physical repairs. White blood cells will work hard to repair cell damage in all parts of your body. If you don't make it to the third and fourth stages, you will be more vulnerable to disease.
Then after about 90 minutes, you will enter the fifth stage, namely REM (rapid eye movement) REM stage or sleep soundly is usually accompanied by a dream, but it can also not. At this stage all your mental problems are "repaired" by the brain.
Every day, the brain is flooded with a variety of information and emotions, especially when hit by pressure from work or family for example. You may not be aware that you are under heavy stress or have an anxiety disorder, for example because of a fuss with your partner.
When you fall asleep and enter REM, this buried anger will be channeled through dreams. If you don't dream of anything, that means the brain moves the anger that was held back to the subconscious. So, you no longer need to hold back any negative emotions towards your partner. That way you can focus on solutions or solving problems with your partner, not on negative emotions.
What happens if you often lack sleep?
The stages of sleep described above take place like a cycle. The point is after REM, you go back to the first stage. And so on until you wake up. So, overnight you can enter REM repeatedly. If you do not have time to enter REM or only once, the brain does not have time to process the emotions or mental disorders that you face. As a result, the brain becomes overwhelmed with all the burden of your thoughts and emotions. This is what can trigger various problems, for example as follows.
- Difficult to concentrate
- Hard to remember
- Difficult to make decisions
- It's hard to learn new things
With various problems caused by lack of sleep, your brain will be more troublesome to banish anxiety, stress, depression, or other psychiatric disorders. Therefore, make sure you always sleep enough. If you have insomnia, call your doctor immediately. Insomnia can be a symptom of mental disorders such as bipolar, depression, and psychosis.
