Sleep deprivation affects many people in the world.

The most common sleep disorder

among young adults and adults is insomnia. In this research I will be researching

the

effects that insomnia has on our mental and physical health. When you aren’t getting

enough sleep at night it is affecting your brain in a very negative way because that is

how your brain resets and starts over for the next day. I know that it can also cause a

person to become very depressed.

Some of the main ideas that I want to focus on during my research is how

insomnia can play a huge role on your mental health. If you already have a mental

health disorder then you are more likely to get insomnia that will make your disorder

worsen. In my one source it states that “according to the American Psychological

Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-

5). A meta-analysis that collectively included 172,077 individuals found that those with

insomnia had a twofold increased risk of developing depression compared with

individuals without insomnia, as reported in 2016 in the journal BMC Psychiatry. (Lee,

par. 4) This will allow me to show that this sleep disorder can make your other disorders

flare up and become worse.

The other main idea that I want to focus on is what lifestyle decisions make your

insomnia worse and how that can put a toll on your mental and physical health. This is

something that I feel that a lot of people can relate to because so many people are

working extra long hours, and have irregular sleep schedules that make their internal

clock off which will make them not be able to get the right amount of sleep a night. It will
be interesting to see what other people think of this idea. I feel that this is one that many

people can argue because some people function better with less sleep while others

really reflect on their daily activity.

All of the sources that I have selected show a different side of this research. The

article “ Consequences of Insufficient Sleep” helps to show the risks that not enough

sleep has on your body. It also talks about all the diseases that you are prone to once

your sleep starts to lack. In this article it talks about how likely a person with terrible

sleep schedule is more likely to be obese. “Several studies have linked insufficient sleep

and weight gain. For example, studies have shown that people who habitually sleep

less than six hours per night are much more likely to have a higher than average body

mass index (BMI) and that people who sleep eight hours have the lowest BMI.”

(Harvard Medical School, par. 5)

I will discuss all some of the potential diseases and health risks that can happen

when someone has insomnia and isn’t properly sleeping every night. I only have one

source that will allow me to answer my question this way so I need to find more sources

that focus on the possible diseases that you can get from insomnia. Research more into

what insomnia causes for someone's life and how that will affect their lives forever. You

are able to fix some of these issues if you can get your insomnia under control. I would

also like to research the possible treatments and medicine that allows people to work

through insomnia and everything that it offers your life.

Work Cited
Costandi, Moheb. “The Sleep-Deprived Brain.” Dana Foundation, 18 July 2018,

https://www.dana.org/article/the-sleep-deprived-brain/. Accessed 7 February

2020.

Fernandez-Mendoza, Julio, and Alexandros N. Vgontzas. “Insomnia and Its

Impact on Physical and Mental Health.” U.S. National Library of Medicine, 1

December 2014, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3972485/.

Accessed 7 February 2020.

Harvard Medical School. “Consequences of Insufficient Sleep.” December 2007,

http://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/healthy/matters/consequences. Accessed 7

February 2020.

Lee, Katherine. “The Relationship Between Insomnia, Anxiety, and Depression:

It’s Complicated.” Everyday Health, 1 May 2018,

https://www.everydayhealth.com/insomnia/relationship-between-insomnia-

anxiety-depression-its-complicated/ . Accessed 7 February 2020.

O’Connell, Karen. “Effects of Insomnia On the Body.” Healthline, 6 February

2017, https://www.healthline.com/health/insomnia-concerns. Accessed 7

February 2020