Aimeé
If you’re suffering from insomnia these days, that’s no surprise. It’s hard to sleep with so much going on in the world that keeps your mind and body from relaxing. That’s on top of all the usual obligations and responsibilities that keep people up late and wake them early. Or maybe you just have a habit of doom scrolling in bed for hours instead of getting any shut-eye. Whatever the reasons you have for not sleeping, try to do something about it immediately. It’s hurting you.
That’s according to Twitter user @1chigoko, who wrote a long thread about how lack of sleep deteriorates health on all fronts.
hi guys! i see so many of you basically ruining your sleep schedules and so i’m just going to drop this thread on why you should ABSOLUTELY get some sleep
— ♡ aiko (@1chigoko) June 24, 2020
They started with, “Consistently sleeping less than 6-7 hrs wrecks your immune system- sleep is a key factor in determining if you will develop Alzheimer’s – improper sleep for even a week will disrupt your sleep enough that you could be classified as pre-diabetic.”
– short sleep brittles your arteries (leads to many cardiovascular diseases and problems)
– causes you to eat more as sleep deprivation causes a spike in the hormone that tells you you’re hungry and a decease in the one that tells you you’re satisfied— ♡ aiko (@1chigoko) June 24, 2020
That’s already a list of terrifying and horrible things that can happen when you can’t sleep enough, but it was nowhere near the end of the list.
– a study showed a 60% amplification in emotional reactivity to negative stimuli in sleep deprived individuals
– poor sleep worsens the symptoms of various mental conditions such as depression, anxiety, suicidality— ♡ aiko (@1chigoko) June 24, 2020
– not only are you more cranky, but the reward and impulsivity center of the brain also becomes hyperactive on low sleep, so you’ll experience extreme mood swings of positive and negative
— ♡ aiko (@1chigoko) June 24, 2020
tw for the tweets ahead so i don’t forget! mental health, s**c*de, health anxiety, etc
— ♡ aiko (@1chigoko) June 24, 2020
Lack of sleep can affect attempts to diet, drastically change your mood, your rational thoughts, makes people more susceptible to addiction, and anxiety.
– because sleep loss also increases activity in the reward center of the brain, we are more susceptible to addiction
– sleep loss has been shown to be a reliable determining factor in the possibility that a child will develop an addiction in adolescence, adulthood— ♡ aiko (@1chigoko) June 24, 2020
there are obviously so many more, these are just a few that stuck with me as i read through some books. take care of yourselves guys! so many of you on anitwt are still so young, and it’s so weird that we have this culture of “omg haha i got no sleep” or even “i bet i had less+
— ♡ aiko (@1chigoko) June 24, 2020
source if you want it: “why we sleep” by matthew walker
— ♡ aiko (@1chigoko) June 24, 2020
It’s not always up to us how much sleep we get, but if you find that some of your habits limit the amount of time you spend resting, try and adjust them. It will be sort of a trial for how much sleep affects how you feel on a regular basis. You might not be able to measure the overall health support sleep gives you across your life, but you might see how much better it makes you feel in the short term.
