![]() ![]() Sleep can affect your emotional regulation. However, consistently poor sleep can be a symptom and cause of mental health problems. It’s common to experience periods of poor sleep, but this doesn’t usually point to a serious mental health problem. – Checking and responding to work emails outside of working hours – Using smart devices (phones, tablets etc.) before bed – Consuming alcohol, nicotine or caffeine around bedtime – Not having a regular sleep-awake routine Lifestyle: Developing poor habits around sleep, such as not having a regular routine, can cause problems.Thinking cycle: Anxious thoughts about not getting enough sleep can cause distress, which can prevent you from relaxing and falling asleep.Life events: You may feel distracted, stressed or worried about something going on in your life while you’re trying to go to sleep, which can affect your ability to relax.Air pollution can also disrupt your sleeping patterns. Environmental issues: Night-time noise, screen light from phones, TVs and tablets, and light from the outside can trick your body into delaying sleep.These problems will usually resolve themselves after a short period of time. Women, Black, Asian and other minority ethnic adults are disproportionately likely to experience poor sleep likely due to social inequality.Įveryone experiences problems sleeping at times, we can wake up in the night, or have dreams that disturb our sleep.37% of adults in the UK cite work as reducing the amount of control they feel they have over their sleep.66% of adolescents cite poor sleep as negatively impacting on their mental health.26% of adults in the UK cite Covid-19 as negatively impacting their sleep.25% of adults in the UK cite money worries as negatively impacting their sleep.Almost 1 in 5 people in the UK aren’t getting enough sleep.In reality, the latest research has shown that: It’s recommended that adults up to the age of 64, need 7-9 hours of sleep per night. ![]()
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