Sleep disorders can significantly impact your quality of life and overall health. Here are five common sleep disorders:
Insomnia is characterised by difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or both, despite having the opportunity to sleep. It can be short-term or chronic and is often related to stress, anxiety, or other underlying health conditions.
Sleep apnea is a serious sleep disorder characterised by pauses in breathing or shallow breaths during sleep. These pauses can last from a few seconds to minutes and can occur multiple times per hour. The most common type is obstructive sleep apnea, where the airway collapses or becomes blocked during sleep.
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Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder characterised by excessive daytime sleepiness and sudden attacks of sleep. People with narcolepsy may also experience cataplexy (sudden loss of muscle tone), sleep paralysis, and hallucinations.
Parasomnias are a group of sleep disorders that involve abnormal behaviours, movements, emotions, and dreams that occur while falling asleep, sleeping, between sleep stages, or during arousal from sleep. Examples include sleepwalking, sleep talking, night terrors, and REM sleep behaviour disorder.