Essays on Sleep Deprivation

Research on the negative impacts of alcohol is endless, yet college students continue to exhibit risky alcohol related behaviors (Mcmurtrie, 2014). Binge drinking is a common practice for college aged people. Binge drinking is having multiple drinks in a short period of time (Smolen, 2018).Social, cultural, emotional, coping with stress are all motivators for why…

Take a second and think, how many times within the past week have you woken up feeling exhausted when all you want to do is roll over and go back to sleep? It seems like a difficult task to change your sleep habits, but once a few easy changes are made to your nighttime routine…

It is no surprise that teenagers across the country are struggling with the farcical school-day schedule that begins with waking up at 6 a.m. and ends with rushing to finish homework at 11 p.m. According to the National Sleep Foundation, teenagers need at least 9 ½ hours of sleep. Sleep- deprivation, substandard performance in school,…

Social media is a very monumental thing for the younger people ,and it’s a rapidly evolving platform for the teens to share content of all types and communicate with each other and express themselves for the wrong purposes. Some people believe that the internet and its various social networking affect the youth in many negative…

College students are more likely to experience common disorders from emerging to adulthood. When the body is tired but doesn’t get enough sleep , it begins to feel mentally and physically exhausted. Sleep deprivation has many consequences like mental health, depression, and difficulty in daily productivity. It make it even harder for students to most…

The APA Dictionary of Psychology characterizes a sleeping disorder as a ‘trouble in starting or keeping up a remedial rest that outcomes in exhaustion, the seriousness of constancy of which causes clinically critical misery or disability in working’. The pineal organ in the mind produces melatonin that works with ‘circadian’ rhythms, which in time enable…

According to the textbook Health for Life, 60% of human deaths are due to cardiovascular disease which is caused by a few risk factors. The following factors include: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, obesity, smoking, alcohol consumption, age, gender, race/ethnicity, and family history (CDC.com). The first risk factor I selected was not getting enough…

During the day we face a lot of stress, that’s mean we all need sleep. If you fell asleep for one minute 60 separate times, your body wouldn’t gain the same value as if you slept for a straight hour. This happens because there are different physiological responses to the chemicals released by your body…

College students across the globe display a constant complaint of sleep deprivation and a lack of concentration. A 2010 ​Journal of Adolescent Health​ study reports that 60% of college students lacked good-quality sleep, in accordance with the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, and in fact, consumed prescription drugs in order to assist in the effects of…

Sleep deprivation has serious damaging effects, it impedes learning, behaviour and performance in young people’s lives. With sleep duration lower than eight hours a night, changes can be done to both human bodies and minds. The overall purpose of conducting this qualitative research study was to investigate the effects of insufficient sleep on different aspects…