Brandon Koloway

Major causes of Insomnia

1. Introduction

Insomnia isi a common sleep disorder that can make it hard to fall asleep, hard to
stay asleep, or cause you to wake up too early and not be able to get back to sleep.
You may still feel tired when you wake up. Insomnia can sap not only your energy level
and mood but also your health, work performance and quality of life. We have three
things causes insomnia such as strees, jet lag and broken heart.

2. Stress is not good

Stress causes insomnia by making it difficult to fall asleep and to stay asleep, and by
affecting the quality of your sleep. Stress makes it hard to fall asleep and stay asleep throughout
the night. Like everything about sleep, different people respond differently, and some have little
sleep disturbance from stress.  Some may actually appear to sleep more, though doctors would
probably describe this more as a symptom of depression or avoidance anxiety than stress.
Generally speaking, stress is linked to shorter and lesser sleep than normal. The causal
relationship works both ways.  People who are deprived of sleep usually show the signs of stress.
Sleep deprivation causes stress on the body and mind. The effect of stress on sleep duration and
quality may be a reflection of how people cope with stress.  Those who allow the emotions and
anxiety to be foremost in their minds are more apt to suffer insomnia due to the stress than those
who take a more rational and pragmatic approach. Experts talk of “multiple pathways” by which
stress and sleep problems are connected over the long haul. Stressed out people may never have
developed good sleep hygiene habits.
Stress puts the mind on alert – hypervigilance (hyperarousal).  The mechanisms for
sleep are still there, but are overwhelmed by too-strong a waking impulse. Stress
causes hyperarousal, which can upset the balance between sleep and wakefulness.
Nevertheless, many people under stress do not have insomnia.

3. Jet lag change time to sleep

Jet lag is a temporary condition. It may begin after you travel across at least two
time zones. The severity of the jet lag depends on how many time zones you crossed
and which direction you traveled. Flying east is usually more difficult of an adjustment
than westward travel. It is estimated that it takes one day per time zone for your body
clock to fully adjust to local time. You may have a difficult time functioning when you are
jet lagged. You may not feel awake and alert when you need to do your job, socialize or
sightsee. Anyone of any age can have jet lag, although older adults are likely to have
more severe jet lag, and may need a much longer time to recover. Some people are
able to adjust more quickly than others to rapid shifts in time zones. Pilots, flight
attendants and business travelers are most likely to have jet lag due to their lifestyle.
Jet lag can be worsened by:
• Sleep loss due to travel
 • Spending a long time sitting in an uncomfortable position, such as in an airplane
• Stress
• Caffeine and alcohol use
• Air pressure or poor air quality

Jet lag is a circadian rhythm sleep disorder. Your circadian rhythms are your body’s
internal clock that signals when you are supposed to feel sleepy or alert. Your circadian
rhythms operate on a roughly 24-hour schedule. Your body uses sunlight to determine
how much of the sleep-promoting hormone melatonin it produces. Melatonin production
is high during the evening and very low during the day. As a result, you are alert during
the daytime and sleepy at night. Traveling across multiple time zones can disrupt your
circadian rhythms.

4. Broken heart so hardest

Love hurts, and that is not just a saying for the broken hearted. Heartbreak is a
very strange distress. It is exquisitely painful, and yet we cannot find an injury on our
body. New research finds that when you reminisce about the one that got away, the
brain actually triggers sensations that you also feel in times of "real" physical pain,
making heartbreak truly, physically painful to add to the emotional distress it sometimes
causes.Heartbreak is like one big emotional pain but it also seems to spark off hundreds
of other emotions. We hate the feeling of heartbreak, and yet we find ourselves
compelled to go over and over memories, ideas or fantasies which make the feeling
worse.

5. Conclusion