Sleep is the happiest thing in the world, bar none! Having a beautiful dream, you can wake up and look back on the good; having a nightmare, you can wake up and understand that it was fake. Sleep is an art, no one can stop me from pursuing the art. For people who have suffered from insomnia for a long time, to fall asleep quickly, I am afraid that the role of sleeping pills is inseparable. The majority of patients who come to the psychology department are suffering from insomnia, and sometimes they are prescribed some sleeping pills according to the situation, but of course they are also advised not to take them every day for the sake of sleeping, and to pay attention to the side effects of this drug! But the side effects of sleeping pills, and you know how much? Today we will look at the six side effects of sleeping pills that you should not know. 1, long-term dependence Most patients will become addicted to sleeping pills after taking them for a period of time, if no longer use the drug is difficult to sleep or sleep through the night, and over time the need to constantly increase the amount of medication. A combination of physical, emotional, behavioral, and cognitive symptoms can also occur in the absence of medication. It has been shown that long-term users of sleeping pills are highly susceptible to drug dependence and withdrawal reactions after stopping the medication. 2, sleep disorders You may find it strange, it is a sleeping pill, but still can make sleep disorders? Yes, you read it right, sleeping pills can also make your sleep disrupted. Sleep caused by taking sleeping pills is different from normal sleep, often nightmares are frequent, easy to wake up early, daytime is often weak and drowsy, not conducive to physical and energy recovery. 3, memory loss Some studies have shown that long-term use of sleeping pills can make memory and mental decline. This situation is particularly significant in the middle-aged and elderly. Medical doctors have found that people over 65 years old who take sleeping pills directly affect their brain balance and ability to keep their minds awake, thus increasing their risk of falling and causing fractures. At the same time, their ability to remember things, people and objects, as well as their ability to reason and synthesize, is greatly diminished. Therefore, long-term use of sleeping pills has a great relationship with the occurrence of Alzheimer’s disease. 4, paranoid personality Take a sleeping pill also has a relationship with personality? Don’t doubt that after taking drugs for a long time or being sick for a long time, there will be bad moods, and personality is not fixed, one of the side effects of sleeping pills is that they may affect the personality of patients taking them. Many people who are addicted to sleeping pills will have their personalities changed, becoming emotionally cold or irritable, often angry over trivial matters, selfish, stubborn, causing tension and discord in families, neighborhoods and colleagues. 5, apnea in the clinic can often be found suffering from sleep apnea people taking sleeping pills caused by the aggravation of the disease. Because the sedative effect of sleeping pills can prolong the duration of apnea, making it difficult to wake up after an apnea attack and an accident, or death due to excessive prolongation of apnea during sleep. 6. Others Dry mouth, blurred vision, dry eyes, slow reaction, etc. In addition, the elderly are sensitive to sleeping pills often cause accidents due to excessive sedation. For those who suffer from respiratory insufficiency, even small doses of sleeping pills may cause respiratory failure to worsen. In addition, it is not uncommon for the elderly to suffer from liver and kidney damage after long-term use of sleeping pills. Although the role of sleeping pills is significant, but also has a lot of side effects, to solve the problem of insomnia, to solve the symptoms is only the symptoms of the treatment is not the root cause, to find the cause of the disease can be targeted. Sometimes your insomnia is not only caused by physical reasons, but to a large extent by psychological reasons!