How are sleep disorders diagnosed and treated?

  Sleep is our normal physiological process, like appetite and sexual needs, which is very important to maintain normal physiological and psychological state; good sleep can help physical and energy recovery.  Normal people have a rhythmic alternation of waking and sleeping every 24 hours. Sleep can be divided into orthogonal sleep (NREM) and heterogeneous sleep (REM). In healthy people, sleep starts in orthogonal sleep o maintain for 70-100 minutes and then turn into heterogeneous sleep, and then turn into orthogonal sleep after maintaining for 20-30 minutes, and so on for about 4-6 times, and the amount of sleep often varies according to age.  Sleep disorder is a state in which the quality of sleep decreases due to difficulties in entering and maintaining sleep, which in turn causes a decrease in energy (not feeling relieved after waking up). Sleep disorder can be manifested as follows: ① prolonged time to fall asleep: more than 30 minutes to fall asleep; ② difficulties in maintaining sleep: more than 2 awakenings at night or early awakening in the early morning; ③ decreased sleep quality: more nightmares; ④ less than 6 hours of sleep.  ⑤ Residual daytime effects: feeling dizzy the next morning, lack of energy, drowsiness, weakness, etc.  There are various causes of sleep disorders, but the most frequent clinical appearances are the following categories: situational sleep disorders: this situation generally has certain triggers, such as changing to an unfamiliar environment is not used to, or some urgent matters, resulting in mental tension, such as some students face examinations tomorrow, may have difficulty sleeping the night before; generally this state of poor sleep is short-lived, after the change in the situation that is It will improve on its own after the situation changes.  Primary sleep disorder: This type of sleep disorder is caused by primary sleep rhythm changes, and there is a certain degree of heredity, for example, we often see such families: parents have long-standing insomnia, and their children also have poor sleep at a certain age. This type of sleep disorder usually lasts for a long time, some even more than ten years of bad sleep.  Psychiatric and psychological disorders associated with sleep disorders: The most common psychological disorders are depression and anxiety disorders, and the sleep symptoms of these patients are often very persistent.  Treatment: Situational sleep disorders generally do not require special treatment and do not require undue attention.  Primary persistent sleep disorder is a disease that has a greater impact on the quality of life, and therefore requires professional intervention and treatment, including: Medication: mainly take some hypnotic drugs that can induce sleep, such as zopiclone, which can play a role in improving sleep, and there is no damage to cognitive function, and does not affect the mental state during the day, generally not recommended for long-term use of sedative hypnotic drugs such as Valium These drugs are favored by many people with sleep disorders because they can improve sleep quickly, but they have potential hazards, such as long-term use leads to addiction and difficult to quit, leading to decreased daytime alertness, long-term use also leads to cognitive impairment, memory, attention function decline.  Psychological interventions: It is not terrible to have bad sleep, what is terrible is the excessive demand for sleep, excessive concern and wrong perceptions, such as some patients think that their sleep must be as long as possible, and when they can’t go to bed for a period of time, they start to worry, afraid that they can’t sleep tonight, generating anticipatory anxiety; therefore, it is also very important to develop good sleep habits and correct understanding of sleep.  Sleep disorders accompanied by psychological diseases: there are a large number of patients, in fact, their problems are much more than just bad sleep, they are accompanied by emotional problems, such as depression, anxiety, tension, etc. In this case, if we simply focus on sleep, it is a headache, foot, treating the symptoms but not the root cause, so these patients will repeatedly go to the doctor, change to different sleep medicine, but the effect is not significant, if If you can target psychological problems, improve anxiety, depression and other conditions, often sleep problems can be more easily solved.  Of course, none of our patients are professionals and it is difficult to identify which category their sleep disorder belongs to, so it is still recommended that when you are faced with such a problem, you go to a regular hospital and do not take medication blindly. 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