Sleep Disorder (Insomnia) Treatment

Sleep Disorders: Symptoms & Types If you have trouble getting to sleep or sleeping through the night, if you wake up too early or have a hard time waking up at all, or if you are overly tired during the day, you may have one of the following sleep problems. 1. Sleep Problems in Children Children and adolescents need at least nine hours of sleep per night. Sleep problems and a lack of sleep can have negative effects on children's performance in school, during extracurricular activities, and in social relationships. 2. Snoring Occasional snoring is usually not very serious and is mostly a nuisance for your bed partner. However, if you are a habitual snorer, you not only disrupt the sleep patterns of those close to you, but you also impair your own sleep quality. 3. Parasomnias Parasomnias are disruptive sleep disorders that can occur during arousals from REM sleep or partial arousals from non-REM sleep. Parasomnias include nightmares, night terrors, sleepwalking, confusional arousals, and many others. 4. Nightmares in Adults When you wake up terrified from a disturbing nightmare, you might think you're the only adult who has them. After all, aren't adults supposed to outgrow nightmares? 5. Night Terrors Night terrors in children are distinctly different from the much more common nightmares. Night terror symptoms are frequent and recurrent episodes of intense crying and fear during sleep, with difficulty arousing the child. 6. Insomnia 7. Sleepwalking Symptoms 8. Bedwetting While bedwetting can be a symptom of an underlying disease, a large majority of children who wet the bed have no underlying disease that explains their bedwetting. 9. Narcolepsy Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder that affects the control of sleep and wakefulness 10. Hypersomnia (Daytime Sleepiness) 11.Sleep-Related Eating Disorders 12.Shift Work Sleep Disorder