2. Real Disease vs. Mental Disease Most people believe insomnia to be a real disease. When in fact it is a Mental Disease. The people that think it is a real disease think that a person cannot achieve a state of sleep due to many reasons, including and not limited to, too much caffeine consumption, anxiety and stress disorders, extreme excitement and or depression.
3. Real Disease vs. Mental Disease The fact showing that it is a mental disease is developed by strong thinking patterns which trick the victims mind into believing that sleep is hard to achieve.
4. Psychologists who support the idea that insomnia is just a mental disease is due to the fact that over ninety percent of insomniacs can be put to deep sleep using hypnosis techniques by slowing down the brain activity. Psychologists who support the idea that insomnia is just a mental disease is due to the fact that over ninety percent of insomniacs can be put to deep sleep using hypnosis techniques by slowing down the brain activity.
5. Real Disease vs. Mental Disease In some recorded cases of insomnia, it was noted that due to high brain activity a person was not able to sleep even when drugs used to induce sleep were used. Only when the brain activity was slowed down using hypnosis, were the insomniacs able to sleep.
6. Real Disease vs. Mental Disease Another important fact used to argue that insomnia is merely a mental disorder is due to popular beliefs that caffeine and other such stimulating chemicals, increase brain activity. This would contradict the reasoning behind insomnia being a real disease.
7. Insomnia usually the causes fall into two categories. Behavioral Emotional Poor Sleep habits Stress Caffeine Depression Environment Worry Too much responsibility
8. Real Disease vs. Mental Disease It is believed that people become insomniacs through a simple process which becomes habitual leading to insomnia. To further explain this, when someone has increased brain activity, they cannot sleep. They soon begin fearing that they will not be able to go to sleep in time to get up for work in the morning. After this they drink coffee or other caffeinated drinks to stay awake which will keep you up at night, and they get stuck in a routine of not sleeping.
9. Some others claim that insomnia is a direct result of patients suffering from anxiety, depression and stress. These create restlessness during the night time, and victims are unable to sleep. So in order to treat insomnia, the patient must first be treated with his other illnesses that lead to insomnia.
10. Conclusion Insomnia is a mental disease. It can be cured by consuming less caffeine. Doing more physical activates during your day. Most importantly psychologically convincing yourself you can go to sleep, and lowering brain activity before you go to sleep.
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