Sleeping Well
Beach of modern man, a problem familiar to many of those employed work-intensive, especially if it involves an intellectual effort – insomnia. Disease businessmen and intellectuals. Who has not hanging around under the blanket, for the umpteenth time thinking about the last working day? Psychologists believe that insomnia occurs as a consequence of inability to find a solution to torture us problems. It happens that we do not even realize what kind of problem does not allow us to sleep.
Deeply hidden in the subconscious, and the unsolved problem which keeps him in constant combat readiness of the entire organism. Trying to get rid of the problem that the person considers urgent, the subconscious instructs the consciousness of “Do not sleep!” Even if a person can at some time silence those orders and forget going to sleep, waking subconscious after a while once it wakes up and tries not to fall asleep. And here we have no choice but to swallow sleeping pills. However, the medication resolves the problem only once – it relieves symptoms. In order to truly get rid of insomnia, you need to find the root of the problem – a cause that causes the problem. Otherwise will have to “cure” a sleeping day. And in the advanced stage of insomnia often goes into phobia – fear of falling asleep, which further exacerbates the situation.
Inability to sleep often occurs when more serious problems than difficulties at work. It can be a symptom of neurosis, cardiovascular diseases, mental disorders. Even very healthy people sleeplessness can begin after the mental tension, fatigue, stress. Experts say that a healthy person, insomnia often occurs because of overexcitation of nerve – a natural, as a result of some events of his life, or artificial, caused by the ingestion of any stimulants such as coffee or alcohol. If insomnia lasts more than two or three days, you should think about its origins. Maybe it’s just a change of time zones in flight? If someone just woke up after a dinner held on the eve of gay Nochka, and in due time can not sleep, it is called insomnia and not worth it. This insomnia – it is when on a background of daytime fatigue, sleepiness and permanent “nod”, the man lying in bed, unable to sleep or sleeping surface, rather dormant. People who are tormented by insomnia, it seems that they do not sleep at all. Often when doing so, they confuse reality with a dream and can not remember the next morning, what they dreamed, and what actually happened.
Seriously worried about is when insomnia becomes chronic: a man does not sleep for a week or more. It causes disruption in the work of the body and the human psyche. “It’s okay if you can not get to sleep a couple of days – says RBC daily Weekend therapist Michael Litvak – But if a man does not sleep all the time, it really destroys the body and requires the intervention of a doctor. However, drugs are only a temporary effect. It is necessary to understand the reasons that cause depression, and here is indispensable aid of the psychoanalyst. The man is not asleep, because it hurts the unresolved situation, he needs help to understand it. And even if the situation was not solved immediately, it is not so important. It is important that, understand what is happening, people have already outlined a plan of action. Since then, he will sleep peacefully.
According to Mr. Litvak, he happened to use in the treatment of their patients a simple way, which essentially consists of the initial installation. To bed, the man begins to instill the idea himself, that he in no case could not fall asleep – not for anything, ever, under any circumstances. When serious approach to business fall asleep almost everything.
If you visit a shrink for some reason is delayed, there are quite a few household tips that can give suffering from insomnia. Doctors themselves say: do not hurry to take a seat on sleeping pills. Any expert will tell you that habit sooner or later will deprive you of the opportunity to take a pill. And while you are still not accustomed to, then, for example, an ordinary half-hour walk in the fresh air, almost acting as a sedative, especially if all day you’re sitting at your computer. To fall asleep was easy, the last meal should be no later than three hours before sending to bed. You should not dine too sharp, bold and heavy dishes. But with an acute sense of hunger to go and not worth it, still do not fall asleep. However, a cup of tea and a biscuit will not fit. We must ensure that at night looking not swallow caffeine, but not necessarily this would strong coffee. Caffeine in tea, Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, energy drinks like Red Bull, in some varieties of chocolates, candies and many painkillers. But you can afford to herbal teas on the basis of mint, chamomile or marjoram to soothe. An excellent addition to this infusion will teaspoon of honey and milk. Before going to bed is to ventilate the room and draw the curtains – the street lamps may prevent us from no less than the sound of music pouring from the windows of passing cars. It is useful before bedtime take a warm bath with salt – this will help relax and distract from thoughts about the events of the day. Or even better go to bed at a specified time, assigning to sleep at least eight hours in a day.