How many times have you had trouble sleeping at night? The constant tossing and turning, closing your eyes thinking you fell asleep for a while but ends up being a couple minutes. I have experienced this numerous times, and I am sure I’m not the only one, especially college students.

Between schoolwork, clubs and your social life can play a role in this. The stress and anxiety from this can lead people, like me, once I got to college my sleep schedule has been completely messed up. Sleeping during the day and staying up all night working on homework, stressing about all the things I should be doing or have to do.

My personal bout with certain sleep disorders

There are many different types of sleeping disorders some of which are ones we do know but don’t notice and also more severe types where people cannot sleep at all or struggle to. A common one people know is sleep apnea, as a kid, I had a little bout with it. When I slept I would hold my breath while I slept and would be a couple seconds and sometimes minutes before I would take another breath. I remember my mom telling me times before where she would start to worry when it lasted a while and would want to wake me up. As I have grown older my sleep apnea has since seemed to go away for the most part.

Another common type of sleep disorder, which I have also more recently have dealt with. Restless leg syndrome is the resistible urge to move your legs. This is common for me at least with not being able to sleep, the constant rolling back and forth from your back, to your side not finding that comfy spot where you can fall asleep.

Sleep is important to our survival without it, it will start to affect us and put additional stress on our bodies. The recommended amount of sleep is about seven hours total. Nothing is better after a hard day then coming home and passing out on your bed for hours on end. It is hard when under stress to fall asleep, but there are always ways to help yourself sleep, there are always things you can look up to help and are very effective.