What's normally overlooked when individuals say they're "sleep deprived" is exactly HOW your sleep deprivation presents itself.
The answer to how your sleep deprivation happens could be the most valuable lead to your tailored sleep solution.
For instance, trouble falling asleep usually has a totally different underlying problem to getting up too early in the morning. Waking up in the middle of the evening anxious and worried, is a different underlying problem to getting up in the middle of the night with twitching legs. It's pretty obvious, but not normally investigated.
Here are a few sleep deprivation problems and possible solutions:
Waking too early in the morning. Evidence has shown that this can have a direct relationship to depression and grief. It can even be related to food additives and colorings that have been linked to depression (e.g. calcium propionate 282, that occurs in few manufactured breads and frozen foods). And there are even common drugs which have the side effect of depression and/or getting up too early in the morning. Solutions here include day-to-day exercise, omega-3 supplementation, finding out the side effects of your prescription medications, and making decisions to change your life to conquer the problem.
Waking in the night anxious and worried. Clearly anxiety could be an issue here. Not so obvious may be an intolerance to a particular food additive or coloring that increases agitation and anxiety - and at times the reaction does NOT show up the night immediately after having eaten that particular food item - it can take days. Evidence shows that several individuals don't think that a food item was a problem unless the adverse reaction happens in the next hour, which makes the diagnosis quite hard. Some food additives, even natural food substances have been related to increased feelings of anxiety, frequent night waking, even nightmares, night terrors and weird dreams.
Remember that if you have a restless, crying baby (sometimes even screaming!) - it may be behaving in this way as the chemicals you're eating are passing to them through your breast milk. (To clarify - we aren't saying breast feeding is the problem, but that the mother's diet could be the problem).
There are several chemical free diets and organizations to aid you if you wish to investigate this option. Food chemicals are also addictive, so there might be few withdrawal symptoms that need managing during this process. Its a great idea to join groups who could aid with this.
These are merely some examples (nowhere near a conclusive list), but they will give you an idea of some of the underlying sleep deprivation problems. Do not just think of insomnia in broad terms any longer, your mission is to get down to detail, and self-diagnose your problem(s) so as to find your unique solution.
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