TOPIC: Sleep

How do you sleep? Do you get 'quality' sleep?

Interesting facts regarding the effects of sleep/lack of sleep on a persons health & well being in this link..

www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/excessive-sleepiness-10/10-results-sleep-loss

New study to be added to that
Lack of sleep may increase Alzheimer's risk
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/267710.phpThe above study may also a strong pointer to why sleep is necessary for our proper functioning.


It is common with CFS which I have, that sleep patterns become very erratic. And I have seen in myself how lack of sleep or poor quality sleep is affecting me very adversely in many ways.

I also have erratic sleep patterns jonb, have had for a very long time. Insomnia.....early waking, etc. & yes, I am noticing adverse effects because of it too, much more now than when I was younger.

I used to think it was mainly down to my dodgy lifestyle, but now I'm not so sure that that is the real cause.

I'm getting hardly any sleep at the moment. A couple of hours, wake up, go back to sleep, wake up.........

I have noticed that as I'm about to drop off..I'm forcing myself to stay awake by watching something ..I've been watching 'Jerseylicious' and loving it.

pheony wrote:
It's horrible isn't it. Because when that happens, you're not getting proper 'deep sleep'....rem sleep.

And these studies are now showing that broken sleep over a long period of time is really detrimental to our wellbeing in so many serious ways.

diamondgeezer wrote:
Yes, it's a bloody pain. Stringing a sentence together, let alone writing it down, is not the easiest of things when you are sleep deprived.

www.nhs.uk/Livewell/tiredness-and-fatigue/Pages/lack-of-sleep-health-risks.aspx

^ From the link in my op.

That resonates with me.

What should one do?

I don't think we are anyway near yet when it comes down to understanding sleep and its real importance to our overall health.

What do we do? The best for ourselves is the only answer to that I have got.

Sleep is good.

For those who have trouble sleeping have you try to make your sleeping environment dark, as in pitch black. It seems to help.

Yes, pitch black is best, but I have to leave the hallway light on because I'm frightened of things that go bump in the night.

I'm my own worst enemy. Instead of having the computer on all night, replaying vids that I earlier fell asleep to...I should turn the damn thing off completely.

The constant refrain from therapists when dealing with this problem, is 'Sleep Hygiene'. Make sure there are no distractions that can encourage even mild activity. Keep your sleeping area clean of things which could involve you.
Like all good advice it is easier said than done.
I maintain a little control by following that and fighting to not drift off at the wrong time, but my body clock is shot to bits, and when I loose control it takes about a week to get back some sort of order.

@jonb, It's a bit difficult leaving your brain outside the bedroom door.

pheony wrote:
Holly shit no wonder you have sleep issues when you keep reminding yourself the world has gone totally bonkers! Are there really guys 'n girls out there that take people like that seriously? Who in their right mind would let their children watch let alone aspire to the likes of that? It's official we are all well and truly feekced!

Frog wrote:


I watched it for research purposes. It's the sort of thing that I would usually run a mile from, but the way these people live their lives fascinated me. I've watched all the available episodes now.

As jonb said "Sleep Hygiene" and no distractions is the way to go, but as you say "it's a bit difficult leaving your brain outside the bedroom door". which is why I have the computer on, to distract my thoughts.

Pheony, I am the same, I have a fasination for the different, i haven't whatched that, but my daughter used to get very upset when I used to use the phrase-

whose house run's house

pheony wrote:
The girl on the right (olivia) looks like a jerseyfied Alicia Keys.

jonb wrote:


I found some parts of it quite uncomfortable to watch, but look beyond the clothes, make up and fighting and you will find hard working people devoted to their families. They are proud of their Italian Heritage and culture, making no excuses for who they are. If this is how they choose to live, in their 'little Italy' in New Jersey. Then I say 'the best of luck to them'.

Before anyone says 'It's a TV show'...Yes. I know.

Communities

Little Italies were, to a considerable extent, the result of Italophobia. The ethnocentrism and anti-Catholicism exhibited by the earlier Anglo-Celtic and northern European settlers helped to create an ideological foundation for fixing foreignness on urban spaces occupied by immigrants.[98] Communities of Italian Americans were established in most major industrial cities of the early 20th century, such as Baltimore, Maryland; Boston, Massachusetts (the "North End"); Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Providence, Rhode Island; St. Louis, Missouri; Chicago, Illinois; Cleveland, Ohio; Buffalo, New York; and Kansas City, Missouri. New Orleans, Louisiana was the first site of immigration of Italians and Sicilians into America in the 19th century, before Italy was a unified nation-state. This was before New York Harbor and Baltimore became the preferred destinations for Italian immigrants. In sharp contrast to the Northeast, most of the Southern states (exceptions being the Atlantic coast of Florida, New Orleans, and a fast-growing communities in Atlanta, Houston, and Dallas) have very few Italian-American residents. During the labor shortage in the 19th and early 20th centuries, planters in the Deep South did attract some Italian immigrants to work as sharecroppers, but they soon left the extreme anti-Italian discrimination and strict regimen of the rural areas for the cities or other states. The state of California has had Italian-American residents since the 1850s. By the 1970s gentrification of inner city neighborhoods and the arrival of new immigrant groups caused a sharp decline in the old Italian-American and other ethnic enclaves.[99] Many Italian Americans moved to the rapidly growing Western states, including Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, and California. Today, New York and New Jersey have the largest numbers of Italian Americans in the U.S. while smaller Northeastern cities such as Pittsburgh, Providence and Hartford have the highest percentage of Italian Americans in their metropolitan areas.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_American

novum wrote:
Yes, she does. Beautiful without all the slap on her face as well.

I have never watched it and know nothing about it.....never even knew it existed until now.

Will it help my sleep patterns?