Cynthia Winslow, NH.D., BA Psych., Practitioner
1. Insomnia – inability to fall asleep or remain asleep during the course of the night. 58% US adults report bouts of insomnia. a) Physical b) Mental c) Behavioral
2. Sleep Apnea – serious condition where there is intermittent cessation of breathing during sleep, which forces the individual to repeatedly wake. Sleep apnea can be linked to irregular heartbeat, heart attack, high blood pressure, stroke and SIDS. These folks are usually under conventional medical care.
3. Narcolepsy – a chronic sleep disorder in which people experience daytime sleepiness so excessive that they fall asleep at inappropriate times for a few seconds to 30 minutes. Attacks occur in the course of normal daily activities like talking, eating, working and walking – even after a full nights sleep.
4. Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome (DSPS) is a condition in which people chronically stay up quite late, usually until 3-4 am and then sleep all morning arising about 10 or 11 am. If DSPS sufferers have to wake earlier in the morning, they do so with great difficulty and experience daytime drowsiness and impaired performance, but still cannot go to sleep until the early morning hours. Advanced Sleep Phase Syndrome is the direct opposite of DSPS.
5. Hypersomnia – sleep disorder in which people sleep too much – either for prolonged periods at night or during the day. Some people normally sleep longer than others – ten or more hours a day – but this does not necessarily indicate a disorder.
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