Emotional Factors That Cause Insomnia

Posted on December 17, 2008 in Latest News

Insomnia many a times is caused due to Emotional Factors. Constant emotional traumas, worries, tensions etc also play a major role in depriving us of our sleep.
Some major causes of Insomnia are
1)    Depression: According to the Diagnostic Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders, depression can be defined as a psychological condition wherein an individual feels very sad, lonely, and helpless, has disinterest in life and faces other psychological and emotional problems. In depression, our body has lesser levels of Melatonin -a component that commands our body to sleep. A person suffering from depression may have enough of melatonin to command our body to sleep, but the melatonin levels do not sustain for long and the individual ends up waking up after 3-5 hours of sleep.
2)    Anxiety:  Anxiety causes stress to build up and when a person is undergoing immense stress and tension, these negative feelings are transmitted in the subconscious and a person becomes so anxious that he/she is constantly on the “Fight or Flight” mode. This causes them to be awake and extra sensitive to the stimuli around. They tend to be worked up constantly and have difficulty in sleeping.
3)    Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: When a person experiences something traumatic, he/she tends to re-live the experience even after the incident or situation occurred a long time back. Inability to cope up with this trauma leads to sleep disorders like Insomnia.
4)    Learned Insomnia: Insomnia is also caused when people are aware of their poor sleeping habits. Constantly worrying about the lack of sleep they had further adds on to Insomnia.

Thus these are some of the emotional factors that add up to insomnia.

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