| Chronic insomnia is an extremely common problem | | | | means than a person who is suffering from chronic |
| today suffered by many millions of people and, while | | | | insomnia, in other words a person who suffers for |
| an increasing number of people do look for an | | | | any extended period of time from an ongoing |
| insomnia cure, a substantial proportion of sufferers | | | | problem in falling asleep, remaining asleep or waking |
| simply choose to live with the condition and merely | | | | too early in the morning, should not simply ignore the |
| adjust their lifestyle accordingly. But could this be | | | | problem but should take positive steps to find a |
| storing up problems for the future? For some | | | | suitable insomnia cure. We all suffer from insomnia |
| considerable time now doctors have been concerned | | | | from time to time and it is quite normal to find that |
| that there may be a link between chronic insomnia | | | | events in our lives, a change in our environment and |
| and both anxiety and depression, but this link has not | | | | a whole host of other factors can lead to insomnia. |
| been clearly defined and there has been a question | | | | However, in most cases such insomnia is short lived |
| about whether chronic insomnia leads to anxiety and | | | | and as events pass, for example, so does our |
| depression or whether anxiety and depression leads | | | | insomnia. Here therefore it is persistent insomnia |
| to chronic insomnia. At last however it seems that | | | | going on not simply for a matter of days, or even a |
| we might be close to finding, or indeed have found, | | | | week or two, but for several weeks and months |
| the answer. In a recent and extensive study carried | | | | that we need to be concerned about when we talk |
| out at the Haukeland University Hospital in Bergan, | | | | in terms of chronic insomnia. In addition, since the |
| Norway, researchers have been studying the problem | | | | study shows that chronic insomnia can lead to |
| of chronic insomnia and both anxiety and depression | | | | anxiety disorder, people suffering from chronic |
| in a group of more than 25,000 patients for a period | | | | insomnia should consider the possibility that they may |
| of well over ten years and, while the picture is still | | | | also be suffering from anxiety disorder for which |
| not entirely clear, the evidence of a link does at last | | | | they should seek professional help from their doctor. |
| seem to be emerging. The study would appear to | | | | Remember too that all of these conditions can be |
| indicate that, in general terms, it is chronic insomnia | | | | treated naturally and there is no need to worry |
| which appears first and which over time in many | | | | about the possibility of having to take sleeping pills |
| cases leads to anxiety disorder. However, the same | | | | and other drugs for either anxiety or depression. In |
| does not appear to be true in the case of | | | | the vast majority of cases, and certainly if caught |
| depression, which is often accompanied by insomnia | | | | early enough, changes to your lifestyle and diet are |
| but does not appear to be caused by it. So just | | | | often all that is necessary to have you right as rain |
| what does this mean? In its very simplest terms it | | | | again in no time at all. |