What causes insomnia?

Many causes: Poor sleep hygiene/rituals- watching tv/ doing internet stuff and other mental activities prior to sleeping, worrying & drinkingcaffeinated drink, medication side effects, working graveyard shift, anxiety, depression, medical illness among others. If it's chronic, try some over the counter meds- benadryl, (diphenhydramine) unisom, melatonin, sleepy time tea etc. If they don't work, ask your dr for prescription drug.

Many choices: Stress / anxiety; hormone imbalance; day/night (circadian) disruption; infection; pain; etc. Talk to your dr if persistent insomnia.

INSOMNIA: INSOMNIA DESERVES A THROUGH EVALUATION. EXAM&LABS. Sleep can be assisted by maintaining a good sleep schedule. A dark room with cool temperature and music therapy. You should also have labs checked for CBC/CMP/Vit d /B12/thyroid. If it persists and there is snoring or difficulty breathing a sleep study may be needed. To evaluate Sleep Apnea &RLS

Multiple factors: Multiple factors can lead to insomnia: emotional, psychiatric or medical condition, unhealthy sleep habits, prescribed or abused substances, or certain physiological / biological factors or simply jetlag. Being more specific, insomnia is a response of the brain to those factors in the way that the brain cannot stop the wakefulness phase and start the sleep cycle phase.

Insomnia: Primary or secondary. Examples of secondary are mood disorders, medications, illnesses such as hyperthyroidism, or effect of illicit substances, also effect of environment.

Insomnia: There is acute insomnia or chronic insomnia, acute insomnia is less than 3 months and chronic is more than 3 to 6 months please identify the stressor that caused this, it could be move to a different time zone, financial, relation stress etc. Google sleep hygiene you may need short term meds like ambien cognitive behavior therapy for insomnia works best according to studies.

There are many causes.: There are over 80 different types of sleep disorders. I am referring you to the mayo clinic website on causes of insomnia because there's not enough space here to answer the question. Best wishes and have a happy holiday season. www.mayoclinic.com/health/insomnia/ds00187/dsection=causes insomnia — comprehensive review covers symptoms, causes, treatment for this sleeping problem.

Lack of sleep: Sleep can be interrupted due to stress, illness, noise, nasal breathing problems, viruses, side effects of medications to name a few. Sleep labs have you come in and monitor your vitals to see if you are not breathing through out the night. If you have sleep apnea , oxygen is prescribed, or surgery in the nasal passages if that is needed. Many reasons for insomnia.

Difficulty falling: Asleep is often associated w/anxiety while waking up early and not returning to sleep is associated w/depression. Periodic waking is associated w/overall light sleep. Please see you doc who may order a sleep study. A psychologist can help w/stress management. Peace and good health.