2023-08-08 19:30:21
In Mexico, the workdays are endless and the diet is not healthy at all, also not much physical exercise is practiced and, to top it all off, you don’t sleep well. This affects our physical health, increasing the risk of suffering from some diseases (hypertension, diabetes or obesity) and could also harm mental health.
The relationship between sleep and mental health is a two-way reality: poor sleep can lead to mental health problems and having mental health problems can affect sleep. Next we are going to offer you some key points of this relationship.
Poor sleep affects emotion regulation
There are many specialists who consider that the quality of sleep directly affects people in their ability to regulate emotions and affects cognitive abilities such as attention, memory and learning. Even more worrisome is the fact that experts point out that little sleep can increase the risk of mental health problems or worsen them.
This is because, during sleep, the brain performs different processes, among which are the processing of emotional information and when little or bad sleep is believed that the consolidation of positive emotions is affected.
Mental health problems cause bad sleep
According to the UK Mental Health Foundation, mental health disorders affect sleep habits. For example, anxiety causes intrusive and racing thoughts to affect sleep. Instead, depression causes insomnia or excess sleep.
For its part, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder generates nightmares and bipolar causes episodes of mania that make people feel more energetic and unable to sleep. There are also studies showing that schizophrenia causes insomnia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder causes people to wake up frequently and be oversleepy during the day.
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