Social distancing due to coronavirus has changed the daily habits of people causing health problems.
The health emergency we are experiencing because of coronavirus has caused some fears and fears in people all over the world, also because of too much information and news, often false or untruthful, circulating about the virus. Stress, anxiety and depression are not the only evils brought about by the pandemic and thesocial isolation, because many people experience great difficulties in reconciling sleep and others suffer from a lack of appetite.
Alejandro Jiménez Genchi, the president of the Mexicana Academy of Medicine in Dormir, located in Mexico City, said there are several reasons why this is happening inability to sleep in people, and that social distancing can also generate this type of alteration.
In fact, the daily routine to which we were all used has changed drastically and the activities we carry out are lower than before. The expert said that: “By not going out, not exercising, not moving from one place to another and walking little, we don’t feel tired when it’s time to go to bed“.
In addition, the difficulties we experience in falling asleep also arise due to a state of iperallerta. The threat posed by the virus tends to keep us awake, since we are constantly in a state of alarm and this produces a cognitive activation that develops at the level of thought and emotions, generating in us anxieties and fears.
The man explained that not being bound to wake up early to reach our workplace or to go to school, we tend to change our sleep period. This factor mainly affects adolescents and young adults and it is a disorder known as “Postponed sleep syndrome“.
When these conditions last for more than three months, they are classified as chronic insomnia disorderhowever, when they are sporadic and last less than this time, they are considered as transient or acute disturbances. The latter are the ones that is presenting the most of the population world at this particular moment.
WHO (World Health Organization) has recognized the existence of more than 80 types of sleep disorders and each of these has specific characteristics. One of the most common is insomnia, which has always affected a considerable number of people all over the world.
Insomnia is characterized by the difficulty in reconciling or to maintain sleep and these characteristics directly affect our performance, which is accompanied by “daytime inconveniences”That come in the form of fatigue, malaise and difficulty concentrating.
To recover the ability to sleep well, it is necessary to use the bedroom for sleeping or for sexual activity, avoiding other distractions such as watching TV or using a mobile phone. In addition, the expert recommends keeping fixed times and very close to what we were used to before the lockdown, trying not to sleep during the day, or at most not to do it for more than 20 consecutive minutes.
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