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Risk factors for insomnia (Sleep disorders)
- Vulnerability to stress, a tendency to anxiety, depression, trauma or other psychological or psychiatric problems.
- Un environment not conducive to sleep: inadequate temperature, excessive lighting and noise, a night’s sleep at high altitude or with a snorer, etc.
- Le jet lag, night work or frequent changes inWork timetable.
- A poor sleep hygiene (too long naps, a lack of daytime physical activity, too active evenings, irregular hours of sleep, etc.).
- benefits routine changes (one night in a hotel room, in a friend’s house, etc.).
- Excessive consumption of caffeine during the day or before bed: for example, tea, coffee, cola, energy drinks and chocolate. The herbal teas with mint can also have an exciting effect.
- The consumption ofalcohol in the evening. Alcohol can make it easier to fall asleep. However, as the body metabolizes alcohol, sleep becomes fragmented and of poorer quality.
- Taking pharmaceuticals over the counter, such as certain decongestants, pain relievers, and weight loss products (often containing caffeine and other stimulants), as well as prescription drugs, such as certain antidepressants, blood pressure medications, and corticosteroids.
- The consumption of Drugs stimulating the central nervous system, such as methamphetamine (which crystal meth) and cocaine. These substances decrease the feeling of tiredness or the feeling of needing sleep, as well as the appetite.
- Un weaning (when you stop using tobacco, sleeping pills, antidepressants, anxiolytics, tranquilizers).
- Smoking, especially in the evening.
- For people with insomnia, theanxiety linked to the fact that one has difficulty falling asleep maintains the problem. We then start to calculate the number of hours we have left to sleep, to think about how insomnia will harm us the next day, etc.