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    to lose sleep, as to meet the demands of everyday life. These changes can bring about many consequences for the student. According to Buboltz (2001), “... of college students, only 36% reported being completely free of any sleep disturbance while over 30% reported some type of sleep difficulty. Buboltz, Brown and Soper (2001) found similar results with over 70% of the students surveyed reporting some type of sleep difficulty on a regular basis”. As one can gather from these results, sleep disturbances

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    Sleep disorders have always surrounded me through family and friends. though I never suffered with any sort of sleeping disorder, I was well aware of how unnerving it can be toothless who suffer from it. I did not know all of the different types there were, and was intrigued when reading chapter three of my psychology book. I had assumed that nigh terrors, which I used to think were the same as nightmares, were over exaggerations of a person’s scary dream. Sleepwalking also held interesting facts

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    Sleep is an episodic state of rest of the mind, body and soul. It usually causes the eyes to close and consciousness to be partly or completely lost. It decreases body movement and respiration, responsiveness to surrounding stimuli is decelerated. Sleep inadequacy or absence can restrict the body’s capability of absorbent information in memory. It can even incur great health risks in areas of heart diseases and other ailments including obesity (“Introduction to Sleep,” 2016). Sleep disorders are

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    symptoms, its apparent he suffers from DSPD. The disorder is diagnosed to individuals that has a delayed sleep pattern by 2 or more hours compared to non-sufferers of DPSD (Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder, Leon C.Lack et al, 2009). Our biological clock goes through a cycle on a daily basis, in which chemicals and hormones are produced to control our body's function. This is also known as circadian rhythm (Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome, Australian Sleep Association). Its responsible for an individual to

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    Sleep Disorders At least 40 million Americans each year suffer from chronic, long-term sleep disorders each year, as well as 20 million having sleeping problems. Sleep disorders account for an estimated $16 billion in medical costs each year. Over 70 sleep disorders have been identified, but the most common include insomnia, sleep apnea, restless legs syndrome, and narcolepsy. Many sleep disorders are treated well. Testing may include a sleep study to diagnose your disorder. A sleep study or polysomnogram

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    Sleep Related Eating Disorder is a hybrid of a sleep and an eating disorder that can be caused by a number of different things - i.e., when a person makes significant changes to their diet, or goes on a calorie limiting diet, when a person has an increase in stress or is going through a period of depression for some reason. Sleep eating can also begin in those who have just quit smoking, stopped taking a medicine, or suddenly stopped drinking any alcohol. It has a higher incidence in people who have

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    I know that personally, I take sleep for granted. Having the ability to lie down after a long day and close my eyes, knowing that in the morning I will wake feeling refreshed and rejuvenated, is something that I haven’t really thought twice about. From reading this chapter, I have learned that many individuals are not so lucky. Sleep-wake disorders can affect a person’s life in tremendous ways. This broad category is broken down into two more specific categories – Dyssomnias and Parasomnias. According

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    “He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God”. Said by: Aeschylus. To me this simply mean don’t do something which you are not comfortable with. When you do something bad it might not affect you at the beginning but it will affect you later in your life. For example in the play Shakespeare Macbeth had Banquo murder so he could become king and he

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                                                              Common Sleep Disorders           Over 50 percent of the people have sleep disorder and don't know they have it. You might have a Common sleep disorder and don't know it.  Over one million sleep disorder there are many of type of Sleep Disorder.  They are treatments to it but how do you know if you have it ? you get diagnosed by going to get a medical exam.  There are many ways to get diagnosed. Children have some of this disorder too.  Sleep Disorder are prevalent among a large

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    Section1: Explain an Issue Studies have shown that sleep disturbances are extremely common in individuals that suffer from PTSD as well as those that suffer from primary insomnia. Although a few studies have been done separately that show the consequences of sleep disturbance in PTSD patients and Insomnia patients, there is little known about how they differ. Some sleep problems reported in PTSD are very similar to those of primary insomnia, but issues that are unique to PTSD suggest that conditions

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