Sleeping disorder

Over fifty million people in North America have some sort of sleeping disorder. The disorders range from snoring into insomnia to sleep apnea, a condition in which the sufferer temporarily stops breathing while sleeping.

A person with a sleep disorder usually sleeps poorly or not enough. Sleeping disorder can be extremely dangerous when they go undiagnosed.

The problem with many people who are dealing with a sleeping disorder is that they’re not aware of it being problem until they see it’s affecting their job and everyday life.

The cost to individuals and to society is huge: more than 100,000 automobile accidents, many fatal, are directly attributed to sleepy drivers each year.

In addition, experts say that many on the job are caused in part by poor decisions and response made by sleep-deprived workers.

Sleep disturbance and lack of restful sleep can masquerade as a myriad of clinical problems, including inattention, depression, headache and seizures.

There are main categories of causes: dyssomnias, parasomnias and sleep disorders associated with medicinal or psychiatric disorders.

Dyssomnias are problems with sleep that result in difficulties in initiating or maintaining sleep while parasomnias are problems resulting from things that occur during sleep that should not occur at this and often causes distress when they do.
Sleeping disorder