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<\/a><\/p>\nWhat causes anxiety from sleep debt?<\/h2>\n
Lack of sleep has a lot of negative effects on our body that can result in having problems dealing with anxiety and stress.<\/a><\/p>\n Although applicable to anyone, sleep debt mostly affects people who already have a pre-existing anxiety disorder. This makes those people experience difficulty in coping with life in general.<\/p>\n One interesting piece of information about sleep debt is the fact that it not only creates and\/or triggers anxiety\u00a0but also causes numerous issues.<\/p>\n These issues, whether mental and physical, that can ultimately lead to anxiety build up. The following are just a few of the many causes of anxiety from sleep debt:<\/p>\n One of the causes of anxiety is sudden and recurring adrenaline release.<\/p>\n The human body, without further information available, has been observed to be capable of releasing adrenaline rapidly and effortlessly, even when the brain doesn\u2019t receive stress.<\/p>\n Moreover, this sudden adrenaline rush makes the human body feel tense and develops into anxiety symptoms.<\/p>\n What\u2019s more interesting is the data that scientists have gathered which show that people with sleep debt are ones who have higher levels of chronic adrenaline.<\/p>\n This means that when a person has inadequate sleep, adrenaline flows through that person\u2019s veins more frequently.<\/p>\n For people without any existing anxiety conditions, sleep debt might not be too great of an issue, but to those who have them are more likely to mismanage the adrenaline rush.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re one of those individuals, you might experience and feel your anxiety levels intensifying.<\/p>\n There are times where a cause of anxiety isn\u2019t even that complicated. A common problem for people suffering sleep debt is that they don\u2019t get enough sleep<\/a> and that alone makes them prone to stress.<\/p>\n As ironic as it sounds, there are people who keep themselves awake at night to mentally scold themselves for not getting enough sleep and further stress themselves for the same reason. This mounts up to anxiety.<\/p>\n Any other added stress, regardless of who caused it, will create more issues within oneself and will make it harder for the host to deal with anxiety.<\/p>\n One of the unique features of our brain is what we call \u201canticipatory anxiety.\u201d<\/p>\n It is a natural kind of anxiety that we experience whenever we think of a situation or an event that might happen in the future.<\/p>\n Research shows that people who suffer sleep debt, get their anticipatory anxiety boosted and built up to actual anxiety once faced with stress.<\/p>\n This is particularly common among those who have suffered or are currently suffering from anxiety.<\/p>\n Inadequate sleep can lead to some unusual physical behavior.<\/p>\n You may observe that:<\/p>\n The behaviors mentioned above may be very stressful for people with anxiety, especially the ones with panic attacks.<\/p>\n In many instances, physical symptoms resemble other diseases that are serious. This makes those who suffer anxiety be in their miserable state whenever they\u2019re continuously sleep deprived.<\/p>\n This is more troublesome for people who get very little sleep and feel like they\u2019ve slept enough, unknowingly adding up to their sleep debt.<\/p>\n Their brains might function like those of that get enough sleep and trick them into thinking that they, too, have gotten enough sleep even when they did not, and even when their bodies act otherwise.<\/p>\n This inflicts fear over health problems upon people who have panic attacks.<\/p>\n Sleep also plays a huge role in our hormones and can greatly affect our hormonal levels.<\/p>\n Our body is in its healthiest state when we get enough sleep, and when our body is healthy, it becomes capable our regulating our hormones.<\/p>\n Sleep deprivation can unbalance our hormones and increase our overall anxiety levels.<\/p>\n Our bodies aren\u2019t the only ones affected when we don\u2019t get enough sleep. Studies show that sleep deprivation is linked to brain dysfunctions, which can further intensify anxiety.<\/p>\n As a matter of fact, serious sleep deprivation causes the brain to hallucinate and experience a variety of symptoms that are similar to that of paranoid schizophrenia. It is still unclear as to why this happens.<\/p>\n Scientists believe that it is because when we are sleeping, our brains regenerate nerve cells that affect different areas of thought, health, etc.<\/p>\n So when you don\u2019t get enough sleep, these nerve cells fail to regenerate, and sometimes even stop functioning altogether.<\/p>\n Scientists also discovered that the brain has areas (the temporal lobe being one) that completely \u2018turn off\u2019 when the host doesn\u2019t get enough sleep.<\/p>\n That kind of reaction usually causes two problems regarding anxiety and sleep.<\/p>\n One, it is probable that the parts of the brain which are responsible for coping suddenly shuts down and<\/p>\n Two, it\u2019s likely that in order to compensate for the brain parts that shut down, the remaining functioning parts of the brains work extra hard.<\/p>\n This causes the brain to experience extreme stress that ultimately leads to anxiety.<\/p>\n Body stress is most probably the most significant cause of anxiety. Body stress is not only caused by sleep debt, but also other factors.<\/p>\n The body experiences stress when it is unable to relieve itself from the strain and pressure during sleep.<\/p>\nRecurring adrenaline rush<\/h3>\n
Stress over lack of sleep<\/h3>\n
Anticipatory anxiety<\/h3>\n
Physical symptoms<\/h3>\n
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Hormonal changes<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nBrain stress<\/h3>\n
Body stress<\/h3>\n