Effects of Sleep Deprivation

Do you experience doing nothing but still feeling tired? Do you experience memorizing something but in the end you still forget it? Do you experience having trouble focusing on things like in studies or work? Do you experience eating so many but still you gain nothing? Or gaining weight excessively even though you eat just fine?

That's probably the effect of not getting enough sleep!

Effects of sleep deprivation have 2 terms, the short term, and long term effects.

Short terms effects are:

• Lack of alertness. First thing in the morning, you are like missing time for 1.5 hours or so.

• Excessive daytime sleepiness. This means you are always grumpy, clumsy, and get tired easily of doing simple things only.

• Impaired memory. Always being a sleepyhead makes you lost your focus or can't focus at all. You concentrate on memorizing some phrases and then another thing occurs to your mind, just like that, you forget it again.

• Relationship stress. You're like always in the bad mood. First thing in the morning and you're day is ruined already. Always feeling like you want to pick a fight when someone wants to have conversations with you.

• Inactiveness. Always want to sit in a corner. You are losing interest in anything. It feels like you are always drained and not having enough energy to do things.

While long term conditions are:

• Diabetes. With the ongoing sleep loss, it lessens your insulin and your hormone level is knocked down. The body secretes more cortisol that makes us stay awake and in that case, it is harder for the insulin to do its job effectively. That means more sugar is stacked up leading you to acquire Type 2 Diabetes.

• High blood pressure. Sleeping helps the blood to regulate. Lack of sleep means your blood is less regulated which leads to higher blood pressure.

• Heart failure or stroke. Having high blood pressure had always been the cause of heart failures, heart attacks, and stroke.

• Obesity. When you are lacking sleep, it lessens your Leptin (the hormones that tell us to stop eating). That means more Ghrelin (the hormone for appetite), this can make us want to eat more when we stay out late. It also slows down metabolism functions which make us gain more weight and worse is being obsessed.

• Depression. Sleep deprivation is a strong cause of mood disorders and makes us overthink things, sometimes leads to acquiring panic disorders.

• Impairment in immunity. The improper habit of staying out late at night disrupts our immune system. So, if you ever catch a cold and flu so easily, then you should likely blame your incomplete bedtime rest.

Always lacking sleep can affect appearances. By continuing this habit, over time, it can lead to the formation of premature wrinkles and dark circles underneath our eyes (also known as eye bags). Chronic sleep deprivation can also increase stress hormones (Cortisol) in the body. As it increases, it can breakdown the protein that keeps our skin smooth called Collagen.

So the more you stay out late at night, the faster you look older and mean more wrinkles. If you probably want to stay looking younger as always, you better get enough sleep.

If you're feeling threatened by these facts, you better improve your sleeping habits. If you can't do anything about it, it is the best time that you should see and consult a medical specialist about your underlying conditions before it is too late.

I think I'm gonna write a follow-up article on proper sleeping hours and how to avoid staying out late. I'm in a mood writing about this topic so that's it.

Thank you for lending your time to read my article. Have a good day and God bless!