Poor sleep of a few nights can affect your mental health

Poor sleep of a few nights can affect your mental health

According to Romania's Sleep Council, citizens in the country sleep an average of six and a half hours a night, which is not enough for most people.

According to the BBC's Dr. Michael Moseley, a number of studies have shown that sleep deprivation can have serious consequences if it is done intentionally or for other reasons.

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A few nights of poor sleep can lead to a rise in blood sugar levels, which in turn encourages overeating and even has a detrimental effect on our DNA.

According to Dr. Simon Archer, as a doctor, he conducted an experiment at the University of Surrey a few years ago in which volunteers were asked to reduce their sleep to one hour a week.

According to Dr. Simon Archer, an assistant in the sleep deprivation experiment, one hour less sleep at night affected the health of the 500 volunteers involved in the study.

So, it is clear that lack of sleep has a negative effect on our bodies, but how does it affect our mental health?

According to Dr. Simon Archer, a limited experiment was conducted at the University of Oxford in which we included volunteers who usually completed their sleep. We attached devices to monitor their sleep. For the first three nights of our study, we allowed them eight hours of uninterrupted sleep.

And for the next three nights, we limited his sleep to four hours.

Each day, volunteers solved a questionnaire about changing their attitudes and emotions.

Sarah Rio, a doctoral student running an experimental program for us was amazed at how quickly the volunteers' attitudes changed.

According to Sarah Rio, the research volunteers experienced increased anxiety, stress, and frustration, as well as increased mental distress and feelings of distrust about other people.

It's only been three nights of sleep deprivation and it's very impressive.

He said three of the four volunteers described the experience as "unpleasant" but one volunteer, Josh, said he was "almost completely unaffected".

According to the opinion of a volunteer, "she is all right, neither happy nor depressed, and not facing any pressure or any other problem."

The experiment showed very different results, with three nights of poor sleep leading to a decrease in positive emotions while negative emotions began to increase, and although the volunteer said he was completely fine, the effects were that he was mentally ill. But problems have started to arise.

According to Daniel Freeman, a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Oxford and head of the study, the reason why sleep disturbances have a negative effect on the brain is that it encourages recurrent negative thinking.

“Lack of comfortable sleep leads to more negative thoughts and we get attached to them,” he says.

He said that one in three people have difficulty sleeping at any one night and perhaps five to ten percent of the general population suffers from insomnia and many deal with it. Increases the risk of developing mental health problems.

According to Norbert Schwartz, a professor of psychology at the University of Southern California, "an increase in annual income of 60,000 a day will not bring as much happiness as an extra hour of sleep at night."