The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has created this informational booklet for people living with Sleep Disorders.
Links to online resources for Sleep Disorders.
Sleep disorders are often treatable, offering the potential to significantly improve your sleep and quality of life. Effective treatments are tailored to the specific diagnosis and may involve a combination of approaches.
Sleep is not a luxury; it’s a biological necessity. When sleep is persistently disrupted, it has far-reaching consequences that permeate into your everyday life.
Understanding what disrupts sleep is the first step toward finding strategies to improve it. While pinpointing a single exact cause for sleep disorders can be difficult, there’s a complex interplay of factors that can make a person more prone to these conditions.
Although people often think first of insomnia, there are other sleep disorders which affect a large number of individuals. Form Sleep Apnea to Nightmares or Night Terrors, these disorders can impact functioning and quality of life.
Insomnia is one of the most widespread sleep disorders, affecting millions of people worldwide. If you find yourself lying awake for extended periods, tossing and turning, or waking long before your alarm goes off, you might be struggling with insomnia.
Sleep disorders encompass a wide range of conditions that disrupt the ability to obtain sufficient, restful sleep. These disorders can interfere with the initiation of sleep, the maintenance of sleep throughout the night, the overall sleep duration, or the quality of sleep itself.