What's often disregarded when individuals say they are "sleep deprived" is exactly HOW your sleep deprivation presents itself.
The answer to how your sleep deprivation occurs can be the most valuable lead to your tailored sleep solution.
For example, difficulty falling asleep generally has a totally different underlying problem to getting up too early in the morning. Waking up in the middle of the night 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 often investigated.
Here are some sleep deprivation issues 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 related to depression (e.g. calcium propionate 282, that occurs in few manufactured breads and frozen foods). And there are even common drugs that have the side-effect of depression and/or getting up too early in the morning. Solutions here include every 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. One of the issues here can be anxiety. Not so obvious may be an intolerance to a particular food additive or coloring which increases agitation and anxiety - and sometimes the reaction does NOT show up the night immediately after having eaten that particular food item - it can take days. Evidence shows that several people don't think that a food item was a problem unless the adverse reaction takes place in the next hour, which makes the diagnosis quite tough. Some food additives, even natural food substances have been associated with increased feelings of anxiety, frequent night waking, also 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 can be the problem).
There are a number of chemical free diets and organizations to help you if you wish to investigate this option. Food chemicals are even addictive, so there might be few withdrawal symptoms that need managing during this process. Its a great idea to join groups who could assist with this.
These are just a couple of examples (nowhere near a conclusive list), but they'll give you an idea of some of the underlying sleep deprivation issues. Don't just think of insomnia in broad terms any more, your mission is to get down to detail, and self-diagnose your problem(s) in order to find your unique solution.
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