Sometimes a major or traumatic event sparks an occurrence. Examples could be: Injury or surgery The loss of a loved one Job loss
Some develop temporary insomnia after a relatively minor event, like extremes in weather, an exam at school, trouble at work or even just traveling. In most of these cases, when the condition resolves, normal sleep returns.
Treatment is usually resorted to when the sleepiness continues for more than a few weeks or interferes with the person’ s normal functioning. A full physical would be in order to see if there is some illness at the bottom of the problem.
We should also be sure to address hormones, as they seem to play a major role in insomnia in women. Although such insomnia is most often temporary, it can certainly play havoc in someone’ s life. During menstruation, the level of a certain hormone( progesterone) plunges, causing insomnia. It’ s been shown that during pregnancy, this same hormone changes within the body greatly in the first three months and the last three months and that insomnia often results. The same is true for menopause. But when you find a woman with chronic insomnia after the age of 50, it is likely due to other causes.
Chronic Insomnia is another story. It seems to have more deep-seated roots. But it can be a mixture of reasons.
A large percentage of chronic insomnia cases prove to have some sort of psychological basis. Most often, the cause of insomnia is anxiety and depression. But it should be noted that insomnia may itself cause emotional problems, so it is often unclear which condition triggered the other, or if they both have a common source. Evidence exists in a national survey by the US Department of Health and