Today, most of the population present on planet earth is suffering from psychological stresses, depression, and anxiety. A significant percentage of these cases in people arise due to problems in their sleeping schedule and lack of sufficient sleep. There is a certain minimum requirement of sleep necessary every day for a child and an adult human body. If the person cannot get the required duration of sleep or any sleep at all, it leads them to become sleep deprived. Being deprived of sleep causes a lot of physical and psychological health problems for an individual. These problems eventually lead to increased pressure on the professional end and fatigue and unhappiness in personal life.
Significance of Sleeping
Sleep is a special tool available to almost every living organism on this planet, such as mammals, birds, reptiles, some fishes, and even insects. This tool allows living beings to minimize the body’s energy consumption and give proper time for the superior organ, the brain, to relax during any part of the day. Being able to execute this process enables humans and other organisms to regain their lost energy and start another day with a healthy brain and proper functions. Lacking to get the required duration of sleep results in becoming sleep deprived for that person. Because of such high importance of sleep in the proper functioning of the body, its deprivation severely affects mental and physical health simultaneously.
Effects on Health
Many serious and deadly health problems are rooted somewhere in deprivation of sleep. Some of these adverse problems include:
- High blood pressure
- Diabetes
- Stroke
- Heart attack and heart failure
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Other psychological problems that root in deprivation of sleep
Conclusion
Sleep is one of the most important bodily functions in every living creature. Maintaining a healthy sleeping schedule results in a healthy and happy body-mind combination. People have become relentless and ignorant of their sleep requirements in this modern age. Therefore, psychological and physical health issues are getting more common and frequent in the population now than at any other period in history. Humans have to be very careful about their sleep requirements, and its fulfillment and awareness is the first step to spreading this message globally.
