Sleeping pills & natural sleep aids

Sleep deprivation has be either a result of freewill choice or be imposed in person by authorities, doctors or life circumstances. Sometimes one is even unaware that they suffer from sleep deprivation and need several more hours of sleep per day. Symptoms of sleep deprivation can coincide with the symptoms of chronic fatigue, depression, overworking, weak immune system, chronic diseases or the consequences of a surgery, injury or medical treatment.

Acute sleep deprivation symptoms are rather serious and are easy to diagnose. A person with acute sleep deprivation looks tired and exhausted, with florid symptoms of hypotaxia. The skin is very pale or “grey” in color, the skin looks dry and wrinkled. In some cases periorbital puffiness is observed. On the initial stage of acute sleep deprivation the person may be over thrilled, the movements are quick, but ill-coordinated, people can repeatedly drop things, the speed of speech is almost doubled and people can speak to themselves. Sleep deprivation symptoms are individual and depends on many factors. On the first stage of acute sleep deprivation the person show extreme aggression, starts shouting without serous reasons. The level of aggression is rather high in some individuals.

On the second stage the person is too exhausted and the body starts to save energy, so the movements and the speech are rather slow, the person looks sleepy and ill. This stage can end with a syncope, seizures, epistaxis, burst of uncontrolled laughter or tears and other harmful consequences.

Sleep deprivation one way or another is common for the greater part of the world population. The state of sleep deprivation is extremely harmful, as it’s a huge stress for the body, which uses sleeping hours to accumulate energy, cleanse itself and repair minor injuries.