Long-term insomnia refers to insomnia that lasts for weeks or years. Long-term insomnia can be divided into primary insomnia and secondary insomnia. Secondary insomnia refers to insomnia caused by other reasons, such as circadian rhythm insomnia, physical illness, mental illness, drug abuse and drinking, etc. Other insomnia is primary insomnia. Insomnia will affect the normal metabolic function of the body, so it is necessary to relieve psychological pressure and adjust sleep in time. Here is the harm of long-term insomnia.

The harm of long-term insomnia

1 will accelerate aging. According to research, human skin fitness is directly related to sleep state. The color and elasticity of skin depend on the content and location of melanin in epidermal cells and the contraction and expansion of skin blood vessels, which are controlled by the regulation of neurohumoral endocrine system, and sleep plays a leading role in it. Clinically, we often see insomnia patients with dark complexion, dark eyes, dark complexion, mottled cheeks and loose wrinkles on the skin, while people who sleep healthily have ruddy complexion, full of vigor, smooth and moist skin. Therefore, adequate quality sleep is the best skin conditioner and beautician.

2. Insomnia and hypertension form a vicious circle. Clinically, some insomniacs also have a history of hypertension. This part of patients, on the one hand, is high blood pressure or some antihypertensive drugs affecting sleep; On the other hand, insomnia will aggravate the condition of hypertension, which is a vicious circle. The main clinical manifestations are waking up early, unable to go to sleep after waking up or being in a daze until dawn, accompanied by symptoms such as head swelling and headache, tightness of the top of the head, pulling of the cervical occipital plate, tinnitus and brain ringing, burning in both cheeks, impatience and irritability.

3. Induced depression, anxiety and other emotional disorders. Emotional activities such as joy and love are closely related to sleep function and affect each other. Mental and psychological factors are the most important influencing factors in the etiology of insomnia patients with abnormal emotional activity. Among the clinical symptoms and signs of sleep disorders, it is often manifested as difficulty in sleeping in bed or early awakening, shallow and unstable sleep, easy awakening and fatigue after waking up. Their insomnia at night can cause abnormal symptoms of emotional activity such as upset, impatience, irritability, lack of interest and self-confidence. And these symptoms will aggravate insomnia at night, so the vicious circle is getting worse.

4, it will make people crazy. Long-term insomnia can lead to people's inability to concentrate when doing things, and it is easy to be anxious and depressed. Some insomniacs even take sleep problems too seriously, fearing that long-term poor sleep will make people "crazy". Experts explain that simple insomnia will not make people "crazy". Because people often have a wrong understanding of insomnia, the ideological burden is too large, but it aggravates insomnia. Because "madness" usually refers to mental illness, and insomnia is just a sleep disorder, the two are completely different in nature. Most mental patients can suffer from insomnia in the early stage, which is the early symptom of mental illness and is caused by mental illness itself; Moreover, in the early stage of mental illness, in addition to insomnia symptoms, there are other mental symptoms, such as hallucinations and auditory hallucinations, which are all caused by mental illness, not mental illness caused by insomnia. So this kind of worry is completely unnecessary.