Do you have a sense of fear of stress when you think about falling asleep? Anxiety is a common mental disorder, and people with anxiety or depression are more likely to experience anxiety about falling asleep.
Sleep insomnia can be a vicious cycle. Anxiety keeps you awake, and your inability to sleep makes you even more anxious. Learning to manage insomnia will end the cycle.
Understand the Link Between Insomnia and Anxiety
Most of us need at least seven hours of sleep a night to function properly. Teenagers may need 8 to 10 hours, and children who are 6 to 13 need 9 to 11 hours. Without it, we’re inviting anxiety in.
A long-term study published in the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology found that children who had trouble sleeping were more likely to develop anxiety in adulthood. This was true even after controlling for factors like socioeconomic status. As they concluded, persistent sleep problems in childhood may be an early risk indicator of anxiety in adulthood.
Pull the Plug on Technology
We’ve heard a lot about the ills of social media, but did you know that it can also affect your ability to sleep? A study of social media use and wellbeing among adolescents found that those who used it more, especially at night, were more likely to suffer from poor sleep and higher anxiety.
The researchers also found that those who were more emotionally invested in social media experienced poorer sleep quality, lower self-esteem and higher levels of anxiety and depression.
It’s difficult for adolescents to use social media without becoming emotionally involved in it. These habits can do more harm than good when it comes to sleep and anxiety.
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