Risk Factors for Insomnia (Part 1)
Posted by admin on September 1st, 2010
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Insomnia is something you may experience during your lifetime due to events in your every day life. These incidents, for some, are infrequent and diminish quickly while other people are more prone to insomnia. Insomnia, left unchecked, can lead to chronic insomnia, and one group at greater risk for developing chronic insomnia are the people ages 60’s and up. Regardless of their age, this segment of the population requires the same amount of sleep as the rest of the population, but, because of certain factors, common to this group, they often get less sleep. Restorative sleep is being able to attain the level of sleep, such that, you reach Stage 4 (deep sleep) of the sleep cycle and Stage 5 (REM or rapid eye movement) of
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As discussed in the last blog, many people have suffered with insomnia and some people have chronic insomnia, which is the third type of insomnia. Chronic insomnia last for three weeks or more and can be a primary disorder or a secondary disorder. Primary insomnia means that a person is having sleeping problems however, not due to a physical or mental condition. Secondary insomnia means there is another disorder in which insomnia is a symptom of that disorder. These disorders can be an underlying psychological or physiological disorder. It is common for a person to seek professional help for insomnia and then learn insomnia is only a symptom of the disorder they have.
Many people have suffered with insomnia at some point in their life and roughly, 10% of all the people who have suffered with insomnia have chronic insomnia. There are specific 
Insomnia is one of the most common medical complaints and can often be associated with stress and anxiety. Most adults have experienced insomnia at one point or another during their life and roughly 10% experience chronic insomnia. Insomnia affects any age group and tends to increase due to age. In the year 2007, approximately 64 million Americans suffered from insomnia on a regular basis according to the Department of Health and Human Services. They also state that insomnia is more prevalent in women by 41% over men.
Panic attacks can really start at the end of the month with the dread of having to pay the bills on the first of the following month. Avoidance, you think, is the answer to your dilemma however, you really know the bills will not go away and will get worse as time goes on. Although you know avoidance, is not the answer it is easier to avoid then to deal with paying bills . . . or is it? We all know not paying the bills leads to more disaster so the person who is prone to panic attacks sets themselves up for more avoiding behavior which leads to more panic attacks. Now it is mid-month, the bills were due on the first, and they are still not paid. Every time you think about sitting down and paying them, you begin to panic and an anxiety attack starts again. You cannot breathe and you feel as though your throat is tightening up. You start shaking and sweating, and nothing makes sense…you cannot think clearly yet you continue to postpone paying your bills again this month. These are very common 
OK, so we just celebrated this great country’s birth but how many of you were feeling anxiety about the family get together. Instead of fun and enjoying the family and yes, even the drama that goes hand in hand, for you it brought more anxiety with gloom, doom, and a panic attack just thinking about getting together. Did you have a hard time breathing or did you feel you might pass out? Did you miss out on the fireworks when you decided you would rather be alone and forego the panic attacks? 
Let’s talk about children and panic attacks. In a way, children may be more susceptible to panic attacks than adults may. Adults are better able to rationalize and understand fears and know what causes them, while children do not. Children’s anxiety attacks vary in degrees and exhibit many of the same forms (as well as other forms) as adults do ranging from mild to severe. Symptoms may manifest with headaches, stomachaches, to not being able to breath. As adult’s we have “learned” to internalize symptoms of anxiety attacks where as children have not and thus their anxiety attacks can also be demonstrated more outwardly by crying, complaining, whining or not wanting to go to school etc. 
Clutter here, clutter there, clutter everywhere. Are you unmotivated or fear once you begin, the clutter will bury you? Do you have an anxiety attack simply thinking about the clutter? The nature of clutter is insidious, seeing it all around can invade your mind, your space, take your time and your life to where you feel like you have no control.