Sleep Soundly Every Night, Feel Fantastic Every Day (6 page)
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Authors: Robert S. Rosenberg
Do you get up to urinate two or more times a night? |
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Do you have an uncomfortable feeling in your extremities that keeps you from falling or staying asleep? |
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Do recurrent nightmares disturb your sleep? |
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Do you find signs of eating at night that you cannot recall? |
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Do you act out your dreams, hurting yourself or others? |
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Has your child been diagnosed with ADHD? |
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Has a traumatic life experience or incident affected your sleep? |
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Are you a night owl who has trouble getting up in the morning? |
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Are you on more than two medications to control your blood pressure? |
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Based on your answers, use the following chart to identify the chapters you should read first. Some symptoms overlap several problems and so multiple chapters are provided. Read all of the chapters suggested to help connect the dots about your sleep and create a complete sleep profile.
If you answered “yes” to:
Question | Go to Chapter |
Do you have trouble controlling your diabetes? | 7 |
Do you wake up feeling like you barely slept at all? | 4, 5, 6, 7 |
When you get into bed at night, do you find it difficult to shut off your mind? | 4, 5 |
Is your snoring so loud that it disturbs others? | 7 |
Do you have difficulty remembering recent events or names? | 4, 7 |
Have you or a loved one been diagnosed with early dementia? | 7 |
Has your depression continued in spite of taking antidepressant medications? | 4, 7 |
Does bedtime bring on feelings of anxiousness? | 4 |
Do you wake up in the early morning hours and find it difficult to go back to sleep? | 4, 5, 6 |
Do you suffer with morning headaches? | 7 |
Do you wake up in a sweat with your heart pounding and feeling anxious? | 7, 11 |
Do you have difficulty staying awake when you are not engaged in an activity? | 4, 7 |
Does it take you a long time to get going in the morning? | 4, 5, 6 |
Do you get up to urinate two or more times a night? | 7 |
Do you have an uncomfortable feeling in your extremities that keeps you from falling or staying asleep? | 4 |
Do recurrent nightmares disturb your sleep? | 11, 12 |
Do you find signs of eating at night that you cannot recall? | 10 |
Do you act out your dreams of hurting yourself or others? | 7, 11 |
Has your child been diagnosed with ADHD? | 7, 13 |
Has a traumatic life experience or incident affected your sleep? | 12 |
Are you a night owl who has trouble getting up in the morning? | 6 |
Are you on more than two medications to control your blood pressure? | 7 |
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Now that you have a better sense of your symptoms, find out more about the benefits of resolving them and the best ways to do so. To understand how symptoms of a sleep disorder disrupt your life, the next chapter introduces the healthy kind of deep sleep you need and its outstanding benefits for mental, emotional, and physical health.
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In
Part One
, you'll learn what constitutes healthy sleep and how restorative sleep works, the stages of sleep, and good sleep hygiene. A minimum of seven to nine hours of sleep improves significantly your ability to think clearly, maintain focus, and stay emotionally balanced.
