Slumbered Sleep

Losing sleep can make your body less
equipped to combat viruses and infections
and increase your risk of developing
diseases like diabetes and high
blood pressure. Your body makes more
cortisol, a hormone that affects stress,
when you are exhausted. Additionally,
closely related to heart attacks and heart
disease is this hormone. Among many
other health issues, chronic inflammation
is linked to a higher risk of cancer
and cardiovascular disease. According
to research, those who have trouble
sleeping are more prone to experience
chronic inflammation since sleep deprivation
has a significant negative impact
on your body’s inflammatory levels. (Dr.
Michael Breus, 2022)
reinforces each other, which is shown in the
difficulty in establishing a clear cause and
effect. Focusing on bettering sleep may, at
least for some people, have the added advantage
of easing depressive symptoms.
Anxiety problems are thought to afflict 20%
of adults and 25% of teenagers each year in
the United States. Excessive dread or worry
increases the risk of heart disease and diabetes
as well as disrupts daily life. There are
many different types of anxiety disorders, the
main ones being OCD and PTSD. (Maquet,
2000)
Sleep issues are closely related to anxiety
disorders. The racing mind that results from
worry and dread is known as hyperarousal,
which is thought to be a major factor in
insomnia. In addition to being a cause of
Sleep issues were once thought to be stress, sleep issues can make it difficult to
a side effect of sadness, but mounting fall asleep at night due to anticipatory anxiety.
People suffering from PTSD frequent-
research indicates that insomnia itself
may cause or worsen depression. It is ly relive traumatic memories in their minds,
thought that sleep issues and depressed experience nightmares, and feel alert, all of
symptoms have a bidirectional link that which can disrupt sleep. Many veterans suf-
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