Insomniacs English Blogs

 CAFFEINE: THE SLEEP KILLER  The most widely consumed ingredient nowadays is caffeine. Caffeine's popularity is driven by taste and because it is a common additive in modern diets. One of the reasons young people don't get enough sleep is caffeine intake, including beverages like coffee, tea, cola, energy drinks such as red bull, which can mess up your sleeping schedule. As coffee is one of the most caffeinated drinks, with 95-165 mg of caffeine per cup, depending on the brew consuming caffeine even six hours before bed can reduce sleep time by more than an hour.    Sleeplessness, anxiety, numerous overnight awakenings, and poor sleep quality may result from consuming coffee to stay up at night. Consumption of caffeine regularly might make it difficult to fall asleep at night, leading to insomnia and tiredness throughout the day. Caffeine can make young adults jittery, and if used in excess or late at night, it might cause insomnia. So why do people take caffeine? As...

  VOICES THAT DON’T LET YOU SLEEP!   Assume you've been working diligently all day long, attending classes, submitting assignments, playing a game of table tennis. You are dead tired, and to end the day, you lay down on your bed to sleep. It's one in the night, sleep is crawling in your eyes, you are almost about to sleep, and then BOOM! Your roommate starts shouting while playing a game of valorant. Does this make you angry, annoyed, and fed up with all the noises in the room while you are trying to sleep? Doesn't this disrupt your sleep cycle and break the flow of sleep in your head?  The answer is yes, it does. Students of my age are in college right now, away from home, alone in a different city, living with an annoying and loud roommate. We need a minimum of eight hours of sleep to live through the day and survive the grueling and tiring schedules. But living with someone who doesn't shut up during the night makes it more and more difficult to sleep.  But n...

  TWO BEST FRIENDS - PMS and Insomnia Attention, Attention, Attention Do you struggle with sleep during your menstrual cycle? If yes, oh girl, you are not alone, and it happens with us too. Let's talk in detail about why your period keeps you up all night? INSOMNIA - It's a sleep disorder in which one faces difficulty falling asleep. Having a good sleep routine and good sleeping hours matters a lot as it can affect how you function in the daytime. You may feel anxious, fatigued, or irritable if you don't get enough sleep, which are all signs of Insomnia. Scientifically, women are 1.25 times more likely to have Insomnia than men. This may be due to hormonal changes during periods.  The two primary hormones that assist control the menstrual cycle are oestrogen and progesterone. A week before your period, the progesterone level in the body increases to prepare the body for pregnancy, but if that doesn't happen, the progesterone level then drops down dramatically. This horm...

  HOW INSOMNIA AND ANXIETY EATS YOU UP  Do you struggle to sleep at night? When feeling fatigued when you wake up, here's why!  Anxiety is the cause of this.  It's your body's normal reaction to stress when you're worried about what's going to happen next. If you experience anxiety regularly, you may have an anxiety condition.   Is anxiety the cause of insomnia, or is insomnia the source of anxiety? If you suffer from anxiety, you will undoubtedly experience insomnia. Anxiety disorders are made worse by lack of sleep. Insomnia can worsen the symptoms of anxiety disorders or prevent them from getting better. Anxiety can also contribute to sleep disturbances, such as insomnia or nightmares.   How is anxiety inter-related to insomnia? If you have anxiety, you will have so many thoughts in and around your head that it will naturally keep you up, resulting in insomnia. When a person is anxious, their mind goes through multiple thoughts per minute, and this storm...

  THE 2'S - SCREEN AND SLEEP HOW YOUR BEDTIME COMPANION IS BECOMING YOUR FOE   "She was sleeping a sleep that wasn't her own and the gadgets to which she was connected didn't make a sound." By- Polo Giordano   What is something you turn to when you're all lonely and caught up in yourself and you want something to spend your time on?  Isn't it your phone……? but did you realize that your constant companion can also ruin your life? In today's digital world, gadgets like mobile phones and laptops are prevalently used by the masses. These gadgets have increased significantly, especially in children and teenagers, after a tedious daily routine. Teenagers tend to use the night as leisure time to scroll through their phones. Usually, people ignore their sleep to use their phones at night, which hampers their overall sleep quality and then fail to perform well at work or are unable to study due to a feeling of tiredness throughout the day. The brain needs sleep...

 Oh The title: I’ll write it tomorrow.  Suppose you are a 12th class student with a lot of work pending, assignment, homework, boards but you are sitting in front of a television watching Brooklyn 99 and stressing about work. Now you have the stress of finishing up your work and finishing b99. This is what procrastination is. You think about work you know you have a lotta work but you are not doing the work rather thinking bout the work. Procrastination causes stress, anxiety, and most importantly gives you insomnia. This is the reason we are here.  Brian tracy in his book eat that frog replicates the frog as the most important work you have. Mark Twain famously remarked that if the first thing you do in the morning is eat a live frog, you may go through the rest of the day knowing that that is probably the worst thing that will happen to you all day. Your "frog" is your most critical duty, the one you're most likely to procrastinate on if you don't take action. Now w...