It’ s not at all overly dramatic to suggest that the emotional costs of snoring are as severe, or possibly even more severe, as snoring’ s physical toll. This is because snoring can lead a disturbing array of emotional problems, including:
▪ Lack of sleep, leading to depression and anxiety
▪ Marital breakdown and divorce, due to lack of sleep and lack of empathy( remember, the snoring partner doesn’ t often know the pain that they are unwittingly causing!)
▪ Eviction by a landlord and the resulting humiliation( this may sound funny, but some people have literally been kicked out of their homes because of their snoring!)
▪ Warring roommates and neighbors
▪ Job loss, due to inability to concentrate and focus( because of sleeplessness)
▪ Memory and retention problems due to sleeplessness And within these problems( and this just a simple list, an entire book can be filled to document the real life emotional damage caused by snoring) are a host of painful mental states that infect both the guilty-snorer, and the enraged non-snorer.
These unproductive emotional states include:
• Frustration
• Anger
• Feelings of violence
• Helplessness
• Desperation
• Anguish
• Exhaustion
• Growing resentment
• Lack of confidence and self-esteem
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