How Insomnia Can Impact You

Getting enough sleep is essential for both your physical and mental health. There can be many consequences to not getting enough sleep besides feeling irritable. You deserve to get quality sleep at night, but what if you feel like you’ve tried everything you can think of on your own? You aren’t alone. Don’t let restlessness and insomnia impact how you life your life. Therapy and medication management can help.

Waking Up to the Negative Effects of Insomnia

If you have insomnia, you will likely have difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep. This means ‘counting sheep,’ tossing and turning in your bed, waking up frequently in the middle of the night or at the crack of dawn. You may even notice that you don’t experience dreams, which occur during the REM phases of sleep. Another telltale sign is feeling short-tempered and tired the next day.

Occasionally struggling to sleep can often be part of the human condition, however, chronically not getting enough sleep can cause damage to both your mental and physical health. Insomnia can impact you in the following ways:

  • Exhaustion, irritability and unusual daytime sleepiness
  • Weight loss and weight gain issues
  • Deteriorating immunity
  • Blood pressure issue
  • Higher risk of serious health issues like diabetes, stroke, heart attack, etc.
  • Higher risk of mental health conditions like anxiety and depression
  • Increased chronic pain
  • Poor focus and attention
  • Affected motor function
  • Decreased motivation and energy

Insomnia can have serious consequences. If you feel you may be experiencing insomnia, don’t ignore it. Treatment can help.

How Can You Treat Insomnia?

Ignoring insomnia won’t help, it will rarely resolve on it’s own. Determining what may be at the root can help you to determine the right course of action. If your difficulty sleeping is related to a medical condition, be sure you are adequately addressing it. If you can’t sleep due to lifestyle concerns, make changes where you can. It can feel difficult, but it is possible.

If you aren’t sure what is contributing to your insomnia or you have tried to make changes and find it difficult to stay consistent, therapy can help. When you find the therapist that is right for you, you can get to the root of what is causing your sleepless nights and find resolution. There are many effective therapeutic interventions and approaches, such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Counseling can help you to find resolution and get to sleep again.

Psychiatric medication management can also be effective, especially if you have tried therapy and it has not led to full resolution. Often a combination of therapy and medication management is what is needed to fully resolve insomnia, especially if it is related to another condition like depression, PTSD or anxiety.

How to Get Started

Finding a provider you can trust and connect with can be complicated. Carolina Counseling Services believes it should not be that difficult. CCS contracts with skilled licensed therapists and psychiatric professionals.

When you call CCS in Cameron, NC our caring Scheduling Team will connect you with a contracted provider who can help. Call now to get started!