If you’ve ever struggled to sleep, you will know the impact it can have on your day-to-day life and how exhausting it can be. Insomnia can make it really difficult to fall asleep or stay asleep. Yet 1 in 3 people needlessly struggle with sleep.

The main cause of insomnia is usually stress and worry. Unable to fall asleep may be caused by medical conditions, drugs and biological factors, although it is usually lifestyle and unhelpful sleep habits, which can easily be improved for a better night’s sleep.

Thankfully there are effective ways to overcome insomnia, which can make a big difference to your overall quality of life.

What Are The Insomnia Sleep Symptoms?

Your body needs sleep to restore, rejuvenate and replenish energy levels. When we don’t get our required number of hour’s sleep, we can feel exhausted, stressed out and it affects our cognitive abilities.

Lack of sleep can impact our relationships with loved ones and family, our working lives and actually prevent us doing the things we want. It’s not until you don’t have it that you realise how important sleep is to our general health and wellbeing.

You’re not alone.

Most people will experience sleep difficulty at some point in their lives and insomnia is a common sleep disorder that can be either:

• Short term – acute insomnia, which lasts days or weeks,
• Long term – chronic insomnia, which can last for a month or more.

Insomnia sleep symptoms may include:

• Finding it hard to fall asleep
• Waking up in the night wide awake
• Waking up too early, unable to get back to sleep again
• Not feeling refreshed after a night’s sleep
• Feeling inappropriately tired and sleepy during the day
• Feeling worried, irritable, anxious and depressed
• Unable to concentrate, focus on tasks or remember things

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