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How Sleep Affects Your Mental Health
You know a lousy night’s sleep will impact your mood and energy during the day, but do you know sleep’s role in your mental health?
How you sleep affects your mental health, but probably not in the way you think. We’ve all had those days where we’re a little off, a little cranky, a little anxious, and we might blame it on a poor night’s sleep.
But it’s not just being tired that’s impacting your mind.
There is something else going on that most people don’t consider…
You see, if you wanted a surefire way to cause your brain to panic, all you’d have to do is one simple thing:
Deny your body from taking another breath.
Many people may question, even on the heels of Mental Health Awareness Month, why ADVENT, an ENT clinic that specializes in snoring, sleep apnea and sinus issues, has so much to say about mental health.
It’s not widely taught or even talked about, but when you think about it, it’s quite obvious how sleep and mental health are related.
When someone who suffers from sleep apnea lays down at night, there’s much more going on than just snoring. Their airway is collapsing and they’re essentially being strangled by their own body.
There’s few experiences more disturbing than struggling to find your next breath because of your compromised breathing. And when you experience this every night, your brain cannot decipher the terror it is experiencing between your airway failing versus someone literally wrapping their hands around your throat and squeezing…
Sometimes over one hundred times an hour.
