In the article, “It’s Time to Pay Attention to Sleep, the New Health Frontier,” written by Alexandra Sifferlin, she discusses the importance of sleep and how it is essential in living a healthy life. Sifferlin talked about Lynn Mitchell, a 68-year old woman who was diagnosed with brain and lung cancer in 2011. She was only getting an hour of sleep a night. The cancer affected her lifestyle as stated in the article, the brain cancer was not only affecting her mentally it was affecting her physically as well. Mitchell was often dizzy and would lose her balance at times. Mitchell was exhausted in the mornings from only getting very little sleep a night and was making her incoherent at times. Her doctors recommended her to a sleep therapist, “For
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I will try not to use any sort of electronics before I go to bed because it can hinder my sleep quality. As for personal experience I have witnessed members of my family go through periods of insomnia and somnambulism and saw the negative impact it had on them. My dad was diagnosed with sleep apnea. He had sleep apnea for many years, but he was not aware he had the sleep disorder until he was caught snoring extremely loudly. In result of this he must wear a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine at night that shoots air in his nose to regulate his breathing. If he does not wear it, he finds himself gasping for air in his sleep and this causes him to wake up in panic because he cannot breathe. It is a scary disorder to have because it slows the breathing down. I asked him what is it like and he said it feels like someone is suffocating him or sitting on his chest. My grandfather suffered from insomnia. He worked nights from the age of 21 to 46. His work shift was 11:00pm to 7:00am seven days a week. He would go to sleep when he got home in the morning and wake up at 4:00pm. He used a black sheet to cover the window, so it would feel like he was sleeping at night and he also had a sound machine on to prevent noises from outside, which also helped him sleep. When my grandpa stopped working nights, it took a few months for him to adjust to his new sleeping schedule and at first he had difficulty falling asleep at night. His body was used to being awake during the night and asleep during the day. After a few years of working day shifts, his body finally adjusted to being awake during the day and asleep at night. When my cousin was younger he used to experience waking up in the middle of the night and sleepwalking. In the middle of the night he used to wake up and go into the kitchen and open the refrigerator and his parents used to get up
I will try not to use any sort of electronics before I go to bed because it can hinder my sleep quality. As for personal experience I have witnessed members of my family go through periods of insomnia and somnambulism and saw the negative impact it had on them. My dad was diagnosed with sleep apnea. He had sleep apnea for many years, but he was not aware he had the sleep disorder until he was caught snoring extremely loudly. In result of this he must wear a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine at night that shoots air in his nose to regulate his breathing. If he does not wear it, he finds himself gasping for air in his sleep and this causes him to wake up in panic because he cannot breathe. It is a scary disorder to have because it slows the breathing down. I asked him what is it like and he said it feels like someone is suffocating him or sitting on his chest. My grandfather suffered from insomnia. He worked nights from the age of 21 to 46. His work shift was 11:00pm to 7:00am seven days a week. He would go to sleep when he got home in the morning and wake up at 4:00pm. He used a black sheet to cover the window, so it would feel like he was sleeping at night and he also had a sound machine on to prevent noises from outside, which also helped him sleep. When my grandpa stopped working nights, it took a few months for him to adjust to his new sleeping schedule and at first he had difficulty falling asleep at night. His body was used to being awake during the night and asleep during the day. After a few years of working day shifts, his body finally adjusted to being awake during the day and asleep at night. When my cousin was younger he used to experience waking up in the middle of the night and sleepwalking. In the middle of the night he used to wake up and go into the kitchen and open the refrigerator and his parents used to get up