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INSOMNIA
Insomnia is a difficulty in initiating and/or maintaining sleep, or the feeling of not having slept a restful sleep. Thus, it is a problem of decreased quantity and/or quality of sleep. Sleep is necessary for the good physical and mental state of the individual. There is a bidirectional relationship between sleep and health.
When a person sleeps poorly for a certain period of time, physical and mental alterations occur that can lead to illness. Insomnia has repercussions on the individual's state of vigilance by producing a decrease in concentration, lack of physical energy and alterations in behavior and emotions (irritability), which have an important effect on the quality of life.
The most common symptoms are: Decreased concentration, Lack of physical energy, Behavioral disturbances.
There are multiple causes of insomnia. Some are frequent and others less common, some are due to environmental influences and others to disorders of the individual, some are of psychiatric or psychological origin and others are organic, some are temporary and others are chronic.
The most frequent causes of insomnia are emotional alterations of a reactive nature and psychiatric illnesses. In general, all those situations of the individual that are accompanied by intense anxiety, worry, psychic tension, anguish, fear or sadness. These insomnia tend to become chronic.
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