How many causes of insomnia are there?

Many people often suffer from insomnia at night. In fact, the cause of insomnia is not only related to the human nervous system, but also to everyone's psychology. The more we want to sleep, the harder it is to fall asleep. At this time, we need to empty our minds and relax ourselves to help fall asleep. Taking a hot bath before going to bed every night can help sleep. So how many reasons are there for insomnia?

Psychological factors trigger insomnia. Psychophysiological insomnia is insomnia caused simply by persistent mental stress, and the insomnia persists after the cause is removed. The factors and manifestations that cause mental stress mainly include:

① Negative life events occur, or you are in a stressful work state for a long time. Patients often have tension headaches, which further interfere with sleep.

② Before going to bed, you strongly desire to have a good sleep, which causes excessive anxiety and uneasiness, making it difficult to fall asleep.

③ Excessive worry about the harm of insomnia to health. After a few nights of insomnia, this worry becomes more intense and all attention is focused on the insomnia problem, making the mind further tense and anxious. Patients with psychological insomnia should actively make self-psychological adjustments, and pay attention to arranging the rhythm of their daily life, balancing work and rest, and relaxing themselves. If necessary, you can take some sedatives and hypnotics under the guidance of a doctor to improve your sleep.

There are two situations in which the environment affects insomnia: one is that one develops certain behavioral habits that accompany falling asleep, such as falling asleep after watching TV for a long time, which forms a dependence on TV. Once there is no TV to watch, insomnia occurs. This type of insomnia is also called sleep-conditioned insomnia. The second is that adverse environmental factors have a direct impact on sleep, which is true environmental insomnia. Common factors include extreme cold, extreme heat, noise, strong light, etc., or being in an environment that requires vigilance, such as guarding a patient or being in a dangerous place. These factors can make people feel uneasy or nervous and anxious, and thus cause insomnia. Once the environment changes or the environmental factors disappear,

Bad habits cause insomnia. Bad habits cause insomnia refers to insomnia caused by bad sleeping habits, such as smoking, drinking, drinking tea or coffee in large quantities before going to bed, or strenuous exercise, excessive excitement, talking for too long, etc. These will increase the difficulty of falling asleep and reduce the quality of sleep. Some people sleep too much during the day, which disrupts their day and night rhythm. They have difficulty falling asleep at night or sleep too little, resulting in insomnia. In this regard, we need to make self-adjustments, overcome the bad habit of sleeping in the daytime, and gradually restore the normal rhythm of sleep.