Sleeping Disorders - The Greatest Ills Of Man
If you have problems getting to sleep, you know how frustrating it can be. You may toss and turn for hours before you fall asleep or you may find that you wake up many times in the night no matter what you do. Others have problems with fatigue during the day, even though they think they are getting a good night of sleep each night. There are many types of sleeping disorders out there, and you may not even know that you have one, and you may not know that they can be more than annoying. They can have a huge impact on your health.
Sleeping disorders are terrible. We all know it. People back in history have bemoaned the trials and tribulations of sleeping disorders. Many have conquered problems and developed tricks or habits for sound sleep patterns. Rare sleeping disorders are written about and made part of fine films. And artists, poets, and musicians had sometimes unusual relationships with their nighttime habits.
E. G. Brown admonishes and denounces Morpheus, the god of dreams/sleep in a raging poem. The poet Rosetti combats insomnia, after paying tribute to his deceased beloved, Lizzie. Surrealist painter Salvador Dali designs a technique for sleeping in very short chunks of time at a time. Einstein and Tesler sleep very little. River Phoenix’s character, Mike, in My Own Private Idaho, suffers from narcolepsy. Michael Richards’ character, Kramer, tries to pull off the Leonardo DaVinci tradition of sleep 15 minutes every four hours. In The Haunting, Liam Neeson plays Dr. David Marrow, who attempts to come up with a theory for sleeping disorders. And Al Pacino is the epitome of insomnia in the movie by the same name.
The depiction of sleeping disorders in art and film goes on, suggesting more than a curious preoccupation with such illnesses or disorders as narcolepsy (sudden bouts of falling fast asleep in any location at any time of day), insomnia (inability to sleep), and sleep apnea (obstructed breathing patterns that waken the sleeper incessantly).
In addition, serious studies and ongoing clinics and research devote much to what are called parasomnias (problems that occur during sleep), such as bruxism (teeth-grinding); head-banging; and what Frank Costanza on Seinfeild calls “the Jimmy-legs,” the restless limbs, moving limbs, or occasional lunges and lurches of the limbs during deep sleep and/or during the initial stages of falling asleep.
Are you having trouble falling asleep at night? Did you lie on your and stare at the ceiling for a few hours before you can finally fall asleep. Have you tried everything you can think of, and tried to rule out various sleeping disorders in an effort to get more sleep? For me, my sleeping problems have started since the news of an illness of a very dear friend, so perhaps I am just anxious and having troubles shutting down my mind. I’m not sure if this is considered one of the many sleeping disorders out there or not.
Other sleeping disorders are not as obvious to the person who is suffering. If you feel exhausted all the time but there seems to be no medical reason for it, you may not be achieving full and restful sleep cycles and you may be exhausted as a result. You may be having issues with sleep apnea, which is one of the most dangerous of sleeping disorders. This is when you may have episodes where you are not breathing while you are sleeping.
Other sleeping disorders aren’t quite as troublesome, but they are something you should talk to your doctor about. You need the best sleep possible each night, and if you aren’t getting it, it can affect your health. If your body is suffering as the result of a sleeping disorder, it is not getting the time to heal and get ready for the next day. Without sleep to help our bodies maintain, a myriad of problems can occur. If you feel tired and drained all the time, have trouble getting over illnesses, and don’t seem to know why, you might want to talk to someone about sleeping disorders.
Here are a few tricks are offered for anyone who has mild insomnia. For example, he/she is warned not to stay in bed for anything besides, well, in this case, sleeping. That is, don’t work in bed; watch TV for hours from the bed, etc., as sleeping brains don’t register it now as a place to sleep but to stay alert and active. Of course, there’s the natural tryptophan solution—hence the jokes and traditions of eating turkey, drinking warm milk, or eating bananas even. It works for me, but of course, anyone with much more serious sleeping disorders will consult a family physician, general practitioner, or sleep specialist instead.
One of the most striking of sayings I found years ago when I was collecting quotes for a friend. It is an ancient sentiment (I think Egyptian or Chinese) that goes something like this:
The three greatest ills of man–To be in bed and sleep not; To want for one who comes not; To try to please and please not. May your greatest ills be less than sleeping frustrations.
Sleeping Disorders - The Greatest Ills Of Man 
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