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_________________06.16.08“I am Jack’s rib,” struggled with insomina and the psychological aspects of it…Posted in Business, Family, Health Issues Related, How To, Sleep Depervation, Travel, health tagged antidepressant, drugs, edward norton, psyco, Sleep, sleep apnea at 1:49 pm by cpapandmore
*While there are many physical aspects of sleep apnea, there are also psychological ones, and they may be subtler to identify and accurately diagnose. The first aspect we see in this condition is that the person does not receive a restful night’s sleep. The reason we need sufficient sleep is because the body needs a certain amount of sleep to restore, repair and recharge the body’s major organs right down to the cellular level. If this doesn’t happen, the person will feel fatigue in the morning. Daytime drowsiness occurs, and this overwhelming desire to sleep will stay with the person throughout the day.
Lack of sleep due to sleep apnea will cause frustration and irritability, as the person needs to stay awake to operate their daily tasks. Problems with concentration and memory loss are also common pshchological aspects of sleep apnea. All of these emotions will add up and provoke a growing sense of depression. The person may even feel like they are losing their mind, as their ability to think clearly is reduced. The only desire may be to stay in bed and get the rest they think they need, when in reality, they should be getting treatment for their sleep apnea.
In extreme cases, they psychological effects of sleep apnea may include thoughts of suicide. If the brain is continually not getting enough oxygen night after night, the quailty and purpose of a person’s life steadily drops. Antidepressant drugs are not efficient in this case, ither, because the medical condition of sleep apnea needs to be diagnosed and effectively treated first.
Depression and Snoring
* Recent research suggest a link between some cases of clinical depression and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). While steadyily becomes more widely known and understood in developed countries, obstructive sleep apnea remains on of the least-diagnosed health issues affecting millions of people.
In OSA sufferers, changes in structures and tissues in the throat cause the throat to collapse or close off during sleep, blocking breathing completely and leading to the signature deep and loud snore as the person finally overcomes the obstruction and gasps a breakth of air. Respiratory interference during sleep often results in alarmingly low blood oxygen levels-which in turn lead to changes in metabolism and blood chemistry, raising the risks of cardiovascular disease among other health issues, and sometimes even causing sudden death by asphyxiation. Now it appears that the chemical changes brought on by this disease may also lead to deep mental depression in some patients.
If you sometimes wake to hear yourself snoring-or if your spouse complains of your loud snoring- it might be awefully smart for your mental as well as physical health to contact on otolaryngologist or sleep clinci to see if an attended or unattended sleep study is appropriate and indicated. However preformed, the object of such a study is to record your breathing and yout blood oxygen levels throughout a night of sleep, to determine if your own throat is collapsing and stopping your breathing. If so, then a various of surgical and non-surgical treatments are available to save your life and breath-and apparently even your sanity!
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