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Health experts have explained that during sleep, pathways form between nerve cells (neurons) in your brain that help you remember new information that you have learned. Sleep deprivation makes your brain exhausted, so it doesn’t remember the things you have learnt as well it is unable to perform its role properly.
Sleep deprivation creates a protective wall for the immune system. If a person will not sleep properly then he or she will be unable to fight against any illness. Moreover, their immune system gets weaker to fend and recover from illness.
Signs which show that you are facing sleep deprivation issues:
- Lack of energy – Your body doesn’t have the energy to perform a daily routine.
- Mood swings – Your mood fluctuations are frequent and it is affecting your daily routine and lifestyle.
- Unable to concentrate- You are physically present somewhere but mentally absent, unable to focus on things going around you, don’t remember anything that you have heard or learnt.
- Anxiety – Due to stress or over thinking you start feeling anxiety.
- Feeling low in mid-day – You didn’t get enough sleep at night then in mid-day you start feeling low, yawning frequently and need a short nap. Sometimes in between work, a person closes their eyes and naps for 5 minutes and you don’t realise.
Normal causes that lead to sleep deprivation are:
- Stress- Taking too much stress either or personal problems or professional problems, sometimes of both makes your anxiety level up which unfortunately
- Poor sleeping habits – Watching a movie or talking on the phone late at night, then waking up late in the next morning also create the issue of sleep deprivation.
- Professional workload – There is a burden of work on your head or a deadline close also makes your mind think about it the whole day.
Medical experts say that due to sleep deprivation severe health problems can rise of:
- Blood Pressure – Anxiety level and stress level when goes up then it shoots up the blood pressure level in our body.
- Diabetes – Same goes for blood sugar level, when your body requires more insulin to work and your body is low to produce then sugar level goes up and leads to diabetes.
- Lower intimacy- Your energy levels have gone down which can also makes you feel low or uninterested in sexual exposure which can make your partner angry.
- Heart attack- Last but important risk of sleep deprivation is the chance of heart failure or heart strokes.
So there is an urgent requirement of treating sleep deprivation either through closed ones or by consulting a good doctor.
