Question

Locate and read a current events or scientific research article on the psychological health benefits of sleep.

Summarize the key findings.

Explain why these findings have important implications for human health

Answer 1

PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH BENEFITS OF SLEEP

                Psychological health and sleep are strongly connected.Researchers findout that persons who are suffering with psychological problems also suffering with sleeping problems like Insomnia. Americans are in leading position in sleep deprived. Patients who are suffering with anxiety,depression,ADHD and bipolar disorders are also suffering with lack of sleep.

KEY FINDINGS

1.When compared with common man, psychological patients facing problems with sleep in high range.
2.Sleep problems generates mental illness, mental disorders
3.Solving sleep problems may solve the psychological problem

SLEEP EFFECTS PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH, HOW?

          Sleeping process divided into sleep cycles. There are four cycles in sleeping process. For every 90 minutes sleep cycle moves from one stage to second stage. Humans will go from quiet sleep to deep sleep in this sleep cycle process. In this process muscles relax, body temperature drops, slow breathing and heart rate. If we lost sleep we also loss these benefits of relaxiation. Sleep deprive also causes affects neuro trammitter levels and stress hormones.

SLEEP DEPRiVATION – EFFECTS:

1.Depression

2.ADHD

3.Anxiety disorders

4.Bipolar disorders

1.Depression:

                 In depression we loss in interest everything surrounded by us. We don’t want to interact with persons.                                                                    

2.Bipolar disorders:

            Person’s who are suffering with bipolar disorder loss control on their thoughts. They will think about what they don’t want to think

3.Anxiety disorders:

            It is a worst reaction in our body by seeing specifici stimulus. Panic disorders,post traumatic stress disorders, and OCD .

4.ADHD:

      Persons are hyperactive, emotionally unstable,inactiave in this disease.

Important implications for human health:

1.We can solve large number of psychological disorders by understing the sleep effect in psychological health.
2.Small size of problems we can solve without consulting specialists by understanding this concept
3.Rather than using psychological medicine we use medicine for sleep
4.We can develop our cognitive skills