Other Sleeping Disorders and Red Herrings Part One
Posted on | January 18, 2010 | No Comments
Sleep apnea is a sleeping disorder that causes the patient to stop breathing during the night. This then disrupts the sleep cycle causing the individual to lose sleep, though often they are unaware that they have woken at all during the night. With this being the case, the only observable symptom for the sufferer themselves is tiredness during the following day. For this reason, self diagnosis can be difficult and it’s easy to let apnea go untreated for many years – particularly if the individual lives alone and so has no one else to notice their behaviour during the night. The best way to identify apnea then could be by process of elimination and by recognising the symptoms of other possible causes; as many other sleep disorders and conditions can cause tiredness and broken sleep.
Depression – Clinical depression has among its symptoms extreme tiredness. The of tiredness experienced should be distinct from that associated with lack of sleep however, feeling more like a lack of energy and a predominance of lethargy rather than a strong desire for sleep. At the same time depressed patients will experience other symptoms of hopelessness, crying, lack of enthusiasm and sex drive and thoughts of suicide.
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