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Sleep Disorders (Dyssomnias (Sleep apnoea (What/ Symptoms/ Effects…

- - - - Lack of sleep quality and quantity
      - Affects 1 in 3 Australians
      - Persistent difficultly falling or staying asleep AND impaired daytime functioning
    - - Stimulus control therapy
      - Sleep restriction therapy
      - Cognitive behavioural therapy
      - Prescribed sleeping tablets
  - - - Literally means 'no breathing'
      - Repeated interruption of breathing during sleep because air passages are blocked OR brain fails to send signals to the muscles that cause breathing
      - Patient is oblivious
    - - Snoring
      - Extreme tiredness during the day
      - Repeated waking and gasping for breath
    - - Medical intervention only
      - Continuous positive airways pressure (CPAP), where air is blown into the nose and mouth to keep airways open
      - No cure, surgical correction
  - - - Sudden and uncontrollable sleep during normal waking hours
      - 5-30 minutes of sleep duration
      - Sufferers fall asleep suddenly into REM sleep
    - - Long naps during the day and drugs help
      - Intervention is medical
- - - - 'Bad dream' with feelings of panic and distress
      - Occur in REM sleep
    - - Write down nightmare in detail
      - Change to nightmare and write down the details of the new dream
      - Imagine (rehearse) the changes in your dream before you fall asleep again
  - - - Occurs in stage 4 sleep (non-Rem)
      - Panic
      - Violent body movements
      - Sweating
      - Screaming
      - Increased breathing and heart rate
    - - Typically diminishes with age