"A sleep disorder, or somnipathy, is a medical disorder of the sleep patterns of a person or animal. Some sleep disorders are serious enough to interfere with normal physical, mental and emotional functioning. Polysomnography is a test commonly ordered for some sleep disorders."That is the definition for sleep disorders given in Wikipedia's Sleep Disorder Page. To put it even simpler than that, sleep disorder is any abnormality in an individual's sleeping patterns. This includes inability to fall asleep, inability to stay asleep, problems during sleep, oversleeping etc.
Though we simply use the phrase 'sleep disorders' as a collective, the disorders themselves are numerous and range from insomnia to narcolepsy to hypopnea to bruxism. Snoring, grinding teeth and shaking legs in sleep are not just some quirkiness of a person, they could be more than that.
Sleep disorders are known to be disastrous for relationships and the patient, even though most of the time they do not know that they have sleep problem. In recent years a new sub discipline called sleep medicine has evolved as part of clinical psychology all over the world. We can say that the awareness has grown in recent years and somnipathy is recognised as a health hazard. However, there are only about less than 200 psychologists in the entire world who specialise in sleep medicine. The internet has lots and lots and lots of information on anything for those who seek, but not all of them are credible.
Next post would simply be a copy-paste of the general sleeping tips from our website, because we are still working on insomnia. Till then, sleep well.
