Sleep deprivation seriously damages the brain, and the effects can be the same as after alcohol consumption, according to scientists. In addition, the lack of rest affects other organs in turn, and from here to developing all kinds of disorders on the background of insufficient sleep is a small step.
Laura Ducu: If I’m sleep deprived I’m irritable. I get much more irritated and the tension goes up, after a few hours it goes down. I also ended up at the hospital because at one point the blood pressure was too high and blood flowed and it didn’t stop.
Laura hasn’t slept well in a very long time. In the last ten years, her nights meant 3-4 hours of sleep each. The daily stress, busy schedule and insufficient rest have turned his whole life upside down.
Laura Ducu: It was a general physical exhaustion of which I was mentally aware, but the circumstances were of such a nature. My to do for some objective reasons could not get smaller at that moment. It was more of a situation that I ended up in rather as a result of my own will and the fact that I kept pushing my limit
Laura’s problem is not an isolated one. Sleep deprivation is a disease of the active man, who agglomerates more and more activities in the 24 hours. Doctors say that especially young people have this problem.
Dr. Oana Deleanu, primary pulmonologist with expertise in somnology: It is the tendency of modern man. I have heard many people say: I have a life and I don’t want to sleep it.
Prof. Dr. Alexandru Vlad Ciurea, neurosurgeon: Modern man wants to do a lot of things and to do them quickly, well and with maximum efficiency. Being pressured by all these things jumps stages. He skips stages from rest, he whips himself, he skips the stages of actual silence.
Studies show that the average night’s sleep has decreased by one to two hours compared to 100 years ago. That is, instead of seven to eight hours, as recommended by specialists, most people sleep less than six. And when the lifestyle is unbalanced, rest is the first thing that suffers. Some studies even compare the effects of insufficient sleep to those of alcohol consumption.
Dr. Oana Deleanu, primary pulmonologist with expertise in somnology: It was found that after the 16 hours of sleeplessness, our degree of dizziness is equivalent to a blood alcohol level of 0.05. If we go to 20-21 hours of sleep deprivation, the blood alcohol level seems to increase to 0.08. So we can say that everything that goes over the 16 hours of sleeplessness already enters into acute sleep deprivation, which can be prolonged in the long term and can turn into chronic deprivation.
Prof. Dr. Alexandru Vlad Ciurea, neurosurgeon: The nerve cell tries to defend itself against alcohol. The large amount of alcohol that can enter changes the nerve cell membranes and breaks a barrier. Alcohol enters the cell and causes balance disorders, attention disorders, concentration disorders, decision-making disorders, hand tremors, you confuse things. Alcohol gives them all this and sleep deprivation leads to roughly similar things.
A single night of insufficient sleep may not endanger health, but in the long term fatigue can lead to road accidents and other catastrophes.
Dr. Oana Deleanu, primary physician pulmonologist with competence in somnology: It seems that the Chernobyl accidents or the Challenger shuttle that exploded were due to technicians who had not slept for 48 hours and who sat deprived of sleep in front of their desks and who did not have pressed fast enough on some levers, in which case the disasters would not have been so great or the consequences would have been limited.
Slowly and surely, insomnia and restless sleep lead to fatigue, which affects the entire body. Concentration difficulties and memory disorders appear, as well as a series of complications.
Laura Ducu: Dizziness is the most common symptom I experience, the immune system starts. Every time I go 3-4 weeks in which I resumed this habit for 3-4 hours a cold will follow. After, the cold will get complicated. It will also give otitis. Now I caught a virus that would not have happened on a much more rested background. Instead of going through 5, it goes through 10 times if it went through 5, then something else follows.
Dr. Oana Deleanu, primary pulmonologist with expertise in somnology: There are studies that found that mice deprived of sleep had a harder time healing their wounds than those who slept normally, the onset of diabetes, weight gain. In the long term, cardiovascular diseases, high blood pressure, atherosclerosis appear and obviously there are also neurological and psychiatric consequences.
Constantin Cornea, psychotherapist: A person who sleeps less than he needs is a more vulnerable person. He is a person who easily triggers anxiety, easily triggers depression, obsessive-compulsive disorders, can develop disorders of sexual life, social life.
That is why it is necessary to consult a specialist when the lack of rest affects the quality of our life.
Constantin Cornea, psychotherapist: We have to evaluate what the problem is that led us to sleep deprivation because if we don’t solve the problem, we don’t solve the subsequent sleep deprivation either. Moreover, if we deprive ourselves of sleep, due to depression, in the morning when we wake up after an unsatisfactory sleep and as a period and as a state that gives us, I take the depression that we left in the evening by the hand and go with it to job or where I’m going the next day.
Dr. Oana Deleanu, primary pulmonologist with expertise in somnology: We would not exist without sleep. The 2 thirds that we spend living and trying to sleep well would not exist if we had that third of restarting, of shutting down, of total closure, of perceptual disengagement from the surrounding environment in which to recover and recharge our batteries .
In addition, a quality sleep helps us to solve problems more efficiently, to focus better on results and to see things more easily from a different perspective, in order to achieve our personal or professional goals, writes digi24.ro.
2023-10-27 03:55:48
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