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Ideally, you should be sleeping 7 to 9 hours a night, but getting more than that (i.e. too much) is really common. Oversleeping affects 4 to 6 percent of the population, one article points out.
Hypersomnolence. Specialty. Psychiatry, neurology, sleep medicine. Hypersomnia is a neurological disorder of excessive time spent sleeping or excessive sleepiness. It can have many possible causes (such as seasonal affective disorder) and can cause distress and problems with functioning. [1]
"Sleeping too much was often associated with depression or some medical illness, or poor sleep quality due to sleep disorders, like sleep apnea," Dr. Dimitriu says. Yes, you read that right. Dr.
A sleep disorder, or somnipathy, is a medical disorder of an individual's sleep patterns. Some sleep disorders are severe enough to interfere with normal physical, mental, social and emotional functioning. Sleep disorders are frequent and can have serious consequences on patients' health and quality of life. [ 1 ]
Infants ages 0-3 months require about 14-17 hours of sleep daily. Toddlers ages 1-2 years need approximately 11-14 hours of daily sleep. Children ages 3-5 years should aim for 10-13 hours. Older ...
Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) is characterized by persistent sleepiness and often a general lack of energy, even during the day after apparently adequate or even prolonged nighttime sleep. EDS can be considered as a broad condition encompassing several sleep disorders where increased sleep is a symptom, or as a symptom of another ...
Health impact of only sleeping 5 hours a night. After sleeping five hours in one night, most people can catch up with one or two nights of sleeping their usual amount or a few hours extra, says Kolla.
Treatment. Cognitive behavioral therapy, caffeine (to induce alertness), sleeping pills. Sleep deprivation, also known as sleep insufficiency[2] or sleeplessness, is the condition of not having adequate duration and/or quality of sleep to support decent alertness, performance, and health. It can be either chronic or acute and may vary widely in ...