what are the physical and psycological causes of insomnia?
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stress, caffeine. Physical pain will keep you up.\nmedical problems like having to constantly go to the bathroom will keep you up all night. snoring.
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Lack of sleep or nutrition. Ask your doctor.
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1. not enough sleep\n2. poor diet\n3. stress\n4. vitamin deficiency\n5. allergies\n6. illness
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There are two main types of insomnia, primary and secondary, although many people with insomnia have a combination of the two.  In primary insomnia, the insomnia is the problem on its own.  In secondary insomnia, the problem is caused by an underlying medical condition such as anxiety or depression, sleep apnea (where a person stops breathing during sleep, and actually wakes up as a result), narcolepsy, or restless legs syndrome.  Primary insomnia is relatively rare, while some of the causes of secondary insomnia are relatively common.  Your physician should take a thorough medical history before you see a specialist.  The sleep specialist may ask you to undergo a sleep study, where you are monitored during your sleep.  During this test, the presence of conditions interfering with sleep can be evaluated.  Treating the condition(s) causing secondary insomnia will often improve sleep.  For primary insomnia, some general principles may be helpful (called sleep hygeine).  These include maintaining a regular sleep and wake-up time, even on the weekends, setting aside time to relax before bedtime, using the bed only for sleeping (and sex) and never for reading or lounging, not eating or consuming caffeine within a few hours of bedtime, getting regular exercise (but not before bedtime), and getting out of bed during the night when you can't sleep (instead of staying in bed, tossing and turning).  These sound pretty basic, but it's really common for people to undermine their sleep cycle without realizing it.  Also, see: www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/sleep
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alot of different things cause sleep problems . the most obvious is too much caffeine, stress, and sometimes health problems.
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Palpitations, shortness of breadth, tremulousness, unsteadiness, dryness of mouth, headache or heaviness of head, giddiness , blurring of vision, frequency of urination, diarrohea, excessive sweatings especially in palms and soles etc. diificulties in cocentration, forgetfulness, sleep disturbances including night mares, reductions in efficiency, feeling fatigue and tiredness and fear as if something is going to happen. Psychotheraphy, and case work, Beahvioural theraphy and biofeedback techiniques . are some  which will helpful if without pills.
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lack of sleep & stress.
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inside the insomniacs brain
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could be a number of things, depression, poor nutrition, sleep apnea, boredom or metabolism.
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you pretty much answered your own question here... any stress/negative thoughts/depression can cause temporary insomnia.  try not to think about your stressors before bed... fall asleep to a movie or listen to music or read a good book.  there are things that you can control and things you cannot control and you certainly cannot control anything laying in your bed thinking about things.  they'll wait until the next day or whenever it is that you can take care of them.
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It is usually lack of sleep or increased stress.  Sometimes too much caffeine or nicotine can be the cause.  The technical term is Myokymia.
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Lack of Sleep \nInsomnia is the inability to fall asleep. It is a common sleep problem that most people experience at least occasionally. When it occurs, people feel tired much of the time and often worry a lot about not getting enough sleep. Consequently, insomnia often disrupts daily life. It can result from the following: \n\nDiet (e.g., intake of caffeine or alcohol) \nEmotional difficulties \nStress \nUnderlying disease \nIt also can be caused by other factors. For short-term insomnia, sleeping pills can be effective. For long-term insomnia, however, sleeping pills can actually worsen the condition. \nSleep deprivation is not actually a disorder; it simply indicates that a person has not been getting enough sleep. Inadequate sleep can affect judgement, reaction-time, hand-eye coordination, memory, and general well-being. \n\nStudies have shown that sleep deprivation also can damage the immune system. Feeling drowsy during the day, falling asleep for very short periods of time (5 minutes or so), or regularly falling asleep immediately after lying down may indicate sleep deprivation. \n\nDisturbed Sleep \nSleep apnea is interrupted breathing during sleep. It usually occurs because of a mechanical problem in the windpipe, but it also can indicate a neurological disorder involving nerve cells (neurons). As people age, muscle tone relaxes, which may cause the windpipe to collapse. This condition, called obstructive sleep apnea, results in loud snoring and blocked air flow through the windpipe that lasts from 10 to 60 seconds. It may appear that the person is gasping or snorting. When this occurs, the brain quickly reacts to the sudden lack of oxygen, the muscles tighten, and the windpipe opens. \n\nNarrow nasal passages, enlarged tonsils, and obesity are factors that may contribute to obstructive sleep apnea. The condition may also be related to the use of alcohol, tobacco, or sedatives. \n\nPatients with sleep apnea lose sleep because every time the windpipe closes, the person has to wake up enough to contract those muscles and resume breathing. As a result, the sleep cycle can be interrupted as many as 100 times a night. In addition, every time the windpipe closes, the brain is deprived of oxygen. This lack of oxygen eventually can cause problems morning headaches and decreased mental function. People who have sleep apnea are at increased risk for heart disease and stroke. \n\nREM sleep behavior disorder causes disruptions in the brain during REM sleep. During REM (i.e., the dream phase of sleep), an area of the brainstem called the pons sends signals to the cerebral cortex, which is the area of the brain responsible for thinking and organizing information. The pons also sends signals to muscles in the body during REM, causing a type of temporary paralysis. \n\nIn a person with REM sleep behavior disorder, these signals translate into images that make up dreams. If the signals are interfered with, the person may physically act out dreams during sleep. For example, if a patient with REM sleep behavior disorder dreams about running, he or she might actually get up and run. As a result of this condition, patients may injure themselves or others. REM sleep behavior disorder is rare. \n\nRestless leg syndrome (RLS) and periodic limb movement disorder (PLMD) are common sleep disorders, especially in the elderly. RLS is a genetic disorder resulting in prickly or tingling sensations in the leg that cause patients to want to move their legs. It often results in insomnia. PLMD causes jerking in the legs or arms that occurs frequently during resting or sleeping. Jerking may occur as many as 3 times in a minute and each jerk can wake the patient. \n\nExcessive Sleep \nNarcolepsy is a condition that causes patients to fall asleep uncontrollably throughout the day for periods lasting less than a minute to more than half an hour. These sleep attacks can occur at anytime, even while the person is engaged in an activity. During sleep, narcol
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other than sleepwalking? somnambulism
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I went through a similar cycle with no help from anywhere.  Drugs left me zonked the next day too.  Eventually I found relief through my own little techniques.  Stress doesn't help mind you.  She has to find a pattern that suits her.  The trick is that when your head hits the pillow it can't say "OK go to sleep, go to sleep this time".  The n the cycle has already begun.  I drink a warm malted milk and then always force my imagination to go somewhere.  For me the start is always very science fiction, but that is just me.  Before you know it the mind can wonder on its own and zzzzzzzz.....  Just advise mind you, insomnia is different for everyone and there are different types.  The other main variety is waking up 3 hours into sleep and then being stuck awake.
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Stress, hard work, poor diets,worries, drugs and alcahol and not enough sleep.
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Kite Girl, you are probably anxious or depressed. Insomnia of Anxiety Neurosis is characterized by difficulty with falling asleep. However, once asleep they sleep through. With Depression, the individual is able to fall asleep but wakes up in the middle of the night (2-3am) and is unable to fall back to sleep. In any case, I think your problem is a mental one. Consider seeing a neurologist or a psychiatrist to properly evaluate this problem.\n\nBut before you go see a doctor, have you tried using a soporific? (e.g. a cup of cocoa/chocolate drink with plenty of milk at bedtime.)
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Before you see a doctor, try some of this advice:\n\nI had a bad problem with insomnia for many years, and did some research on it.  Here are the things I’ve found that help the most.\n\n1.  Don't take the sleeping pills.  Although they are not addictive in the way we tend to think (you won't jones for them if you miss taking them) they are addictive in the sense that once you have taken them for a while, you will have to take them to get to sleep, but they won't have the same effect they used too.   This is because you tend to not get the necessary REM sleep you need to be rested.  If you must take a sleeping pill, take it well before you go to sleep.  For instance, I prefer to take sleeping pills 2 hours before I go to sleep, so that the pill can get into my system and make me drowsy before I get into bed, then get out of my system (hopefully) early enough that I get some normal sleep.\n\n2.  Try to go to bed at about the same time every night.  You have some wiggle room on this, but if you stay out on Saturday night till 3, it'll be harder to go to sleep at 10PM Sunday.\n\n(Which somewhat contradicts:)\n\n3.  If possible, don't go to bed if you're not sleepy.  Note  - one thing I have read and found to be true is that you have to be awake for 12 hours before you can go back to sleep.  So if you sleep till noon, again, you won't be sleepy at 10PM.  \n\n4.  Don't spend more than 15-30 minutes trying to get to sleep.  If you notice that you've been in bed more than 15 minutes, get out of bed and do something for a while.  Make sure what you do isn't going to make you more hyper; e.g. no exercising or energetic music or writing posts to online debates. \n\n5.  When you go to bed, choose a chore or some other task that you do not want to do and tell yourself that if you are still awake in thirty minutes you will do that task.  Then, if you are still awake, get up and do your chosen task.  This is my favorite suggestion, as it has worked nearly every time I've used it. .\n\nThose are the most useful suggestions I have.  Other things you can try:\n\nBefore you start getting ready for sleep, turn off high energy music and turn the lights down.  I love R&R music, but I went through a period where I had to turn the radio off every night about an hour before I went to bed, or I would be too wired to sleep. And our bodies react to reduced light by producing melatonin which puts us to sleep.  \n\nGet plenty of exercise, but not right before bed.  (Unless you're weird like me - exercise right before bed just puts me to sleep)\n\nAnother suggestion that might work is to relax your body, consciously, one area at a time, starting from your feet. You think about the ball of your left foot and relax it, then the ball of your right foot, then the arch of your left foot, etc. You have to concentrate (pretty hard) on what you are doing\n\nSex *grin*  by yourself or with an SO, it produces a nice soporific chemical, which does a nice job of putting you to sleep.