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Six Steps to Prevention of Insomnia
Before you begin a treatment, the patient must make a series of measures that can help prevent insomnia.
The first thing to consider is that not everyone who has difficulty sleeping, is a true insomniac. The individual must remain calm and not be obsessed with his inability to sleep, because if you do, you will find it increasingly difficult to achieve.
It is not necessary to sleep 8 or 10 hours a day, being able to live perfectly but only sleep five hours a day. Each person has some individual needs, and sleep less than others does not mean that one is really insomniac.
On the other hand, is quite common for elderly patients sleep less at night, but that does not mean that there may be damage to your body, but is a normal physiological state that accompanies old age.
It is important to avoid insomnia taking a series of measures:
a) Bedtime. The dream has a rhythm, that if we miss, it can lead to alterations of it. First, the individual should try to sleep more or less the same time every day, because if you lie down, the body does not recognize that it’s his “bedtime” and not going to do. Staying awake in bed, especially when the next day must wake up early, can lead to anxiety causes a difficulty in sleeping.
b) Time to wake up. It is also important to record that the time you get up, determines the time at which we enter sleep. It should therefore always try to get up at the same time, including weekends, or at least make these hours do not differ too much. Read the rest of this entry »