Insomnia is a common physiological and psychological disorder, and it is probably the most common clinical symptom other than pain. Long-term insomnia can seriously affect people’s normal life and work, and is extremely harmful to health. However, many people do not realize that insomnia is a disease, so they neglect to treat it, which leads to many other diseases. This shows that the correct treatment of insomnia is very important, so how much do you know about insomnia? Insomnia is a subjective experience of unsatisfactory sleep time and/or quality that affects social functioning during the day. The manifestations of insomnia include: sleeping for more than 30 min; waking up twice or more at night or waking up early in the morning; decreased sleep quality; shortening of total sleep time; feeling dizzy, mental fatigue, drowsiness and fatigue in the next morning. According to the length of the disease, insomnia can be broadly divided into two categories: transient insomnia (less than 1 week) and chronic insomnia (more than 1 month), in general, insomnia for more than 1 week in a row has a chronic trend. Modern research has confirmed that nearly 90 diseases have a great correlation with insomnia, indicating that insomnia is very harmful to human health. Long-term insomnia can cause an increase in blood cholesterol content, blood vessel sclerosis, and even directly increase blood pressure, increasing the risk of heart disease and stroke; it can also significantly reduce immune function, intelligence and memory loss, mental depression, fatigue, poor resistance, and aging too fast; it can even affect the normal division of cells, which may produce mutations in cancer cells and lead to the occurrence of cancer. Follow-up studies have found that people with chronic insomnia are more likely to develop depression and diabetes than the general population. Through the above discussion, we have a certain understanding of insomnia and the dangers of insomnia, and we may even have a certain fear of insomnia. In daily life, we should pay attention to the following points: First, sleep is not necessarily insomnia Generally speaking, almost everyone has experienced the encounter of distress, or drink excitatory drinks and other external disturbing factors, and the situation of tossing and turning sleep, will think that they “insomnia”, the more you think about the more disturbed, the more disturbed the more sleepless. This occasionally can not fall asleep naturally, but after self-regulation and solve the external interference factors, can soon resume normal sleep can not be called insomnia. Many people who occasionally can not sleep think they have insomnia, put themselves into the ranks of the sick, but also not conducive to physical and mental health. Second, the “insomnia”, treatment or not to treatment After the occurrence of sleeplessness, do not arbitrarily insomnia to their own head. First of all, we must relax, and then analyze the reasons, is it too much pressure at work? Is there a problem in your life? Is it because the sleeping environment has changed and you are not used to it? Then self-regulate. If you can soon resume normal sleep, there is no need to worry about it, and there is no need to take medication. If external disturbing factors are found and avoided, and insomnia still persists after self-regulation, it is necessary to pay attention to it and seek timely medical treatment. Third, the standard of healthy sleep can not be judged simply by sleep time The length of sleep varies from person to person and is related to age and seasonal changes. There is a difference in the amount of sleep required by different age groups. In general, infants need 16 hours of sleep, elementary and middle school students need 10 hours, high school students should ideally get 9 hours, and adults 7-8 hours. Everyone’s situation is different, and the amount of sleep varies from person to person, so how well you sleep cannot be evaluated simply by the length of sleep. Some people are born with short sleep type, although the sleep time is relatively short, but it does not affect his energy and life. Therefore, the goodness of sleep cannot be measured simply by the length of sleep, but should be judged by whether it has eliminated fatigue and whether it is energetic. As long as you feel energetic the next day and don’t feel uncomfortable, it shows that the quality of sleep is high and healthy. Zeng Guofan, the leader of the Xiang army, once said, “There is no other way to maintain health, but to sleep and eat”, which is a precise summary of health care. In today’s world where people are paying more and more attention to health care, this saying still has an important meaning. If you pay attention to insomnia, you will pay attention to your sleep, which is health care, and may everyone have a healthy sleep every day!