Lack of Sleep and Potential of Insane
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
Sleep disorder that caused lack of time to sleep apparently can affect on mental health. This thing was determined by researchers from Harvard University, United States. According to these researchers, lack of sleep resulting directly on someone’s mental. Side effect that commonly happen is depression. But there also many experienced the difficulty to concentrate.
Besides that, stress and depression can also be experienced by someone who is not getting enough sleep. Further research revealed that when someone is less sleep, then fluctuations changing occur in the body’s hormones. Hormones that arrange someone’s psychological condition is also going to change. So that mental and psychological conditions can be affected as well.
Unfortunately, there is no clear data about the patient that mentally disturbed because of lack of sleep. The researchers were only told not to belittle about sleep disorders. You should immediately consult that situation with your doctor.
A myth says that older people doesn’t have to sleep much. Seven to 8 hours of sleep is a normal amount of time to sleep for most adults, though some people may need to sleep at least 5 hours or perhaps until 10 hours. When we reach old age, according to a national institution of stroke and neurological problems, generally, we are requiring same amount of sleep as we are adults or early age.