| There are numerous people who have an | | | | can fall to sleep easily when they go to bed, |
| undiagnosed sleeping disorder. They could really feel | | | | however wake up often throughout the night. Sleep |
| very sleepy through the day. They could have | | | | disorders may include sleep maintenance insomnia, |
| trouble falling to sleep or staying asleep. Friends or | | | | shift work. If an individual wakes up very early in the |
| family members may tell them they appear very | | | | morning and cannot get back to sleep, it may very |
| tired. They may experience mood changes, irritability | | | | well be an indication of advanced sleep phase |
| or turn out to be overly emotional. Usually they've | | | | disorder or sleep maintenance insomnia. |
| problems paying attention, concentrating, or recalling | | | | If the answer to the query is "I am unable to stay |
| things which might be important. These are all signs | | | | awake" and the person is falling asleep at |
| of sleep deprivation, and possibly of a sleeping | | | | inappropriate occasions there may be a sleep problem |
| disorder. | | | | such as narcolepsy, obstructive or central sleep |
| An individual that has an undiagnosed sleeping | | | | apnea, periodic limb movement dysfunction, restless |
| problem will often answer the question, "What is the | | | | leg syndrome, shift work or advanced sleep-phase |
| problem with your sleep," with one of five answers. | | | | disorder. |
| Those answers will be; "I've trouble falling asleep," " I | | | | Those that say "I am unable to get up in the |
| have hassle staying awake," "I can not get up in the | | | | morning" and take an hour or more to totally wake |
| morning," "I seem to do unusual things in my sleep" | | | | from their sleep may suffer from excessive sleep |
| or "I can not fall asleep due to my partner." The | | | | inertia. They're having trouble making the transition |
| actual answer chosen helps to narrow down the | | | | from sleeping to being awake. Sleeping problems that |
| possibility of a particular sort of sleep disorder. | | | | might be accountable for excessive sleep-inertia are |
| When somebody says "I can't fall asleep" it will | | | | sleep apnea and delayed sleeping phase disorder. |
| possibly mean several things. There may very well be | | | | A person that answers the query with "I do strange |
| an issue when first going to bed, after awaking in the | | | | things in my sleep" might find that their sleep is filled |
| course of the night time, or in the early hours of the | | | | with surprises. Sleepwalking, Sleep terrors, confusional |
| morning. | | | | arousals, REM sleep behavior dysfunction, nightmares, |
| Many people have the issue of not having the ability | | | | sleep-related eating disorder and bruxism are all forms |
| to go to sleep when they go to bed. This is referred | | | | of sleeping disorders generally known as parasomnias. |
| to as sleep latency. Sleep latency can be a very | | | | If a person answers "I can not sleep because of my |
| serious symptom of certain sleep disorders, including | | | | companion" snoring, sleep apnea, bruxism, restless leg |
| sleep onset insomnia, delayed sleep phase | | | | syndrome, or periodic limb movement disorder often |
| dysfunction, shift work, restless leg syndrome or | | | | is the sleep problem to blame. |
| paradoxical insomnia. Many instances the problem isn't | | | | How would you answer the query of "What is the |
| having the ability to stay asleep, which is sleep | | | | problem with your sleeping? |
| fragmentation. Usually an individual with this complaint | | | | |