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Sleep is so important. we need it to live and when we can't sleep we're desperate for help but lately our fascination with sleep feels as if it's taken on an urgency. do a quick internet search for sleep and you'll find a slew of video's about how to make your sleep perfect. new gadgets, fancy Alam clocks, music, stay away from blue and red light. there are lots of services, product and advice columns that tell us we're sleeping wrong. not enough, not quality sleep, wrong position. even worse you might find scary messaging claiming that if you're not sleeping right you'r life is going to be shorter you're going to get all kinds of diseases. one of the biggest worries we have about our sleep is that we're not getting enough and that anything less than seven hours a night means that we're doomed to bad helth evrything from high blood pressure to Alzheimer's disease. but there are two flaws with this kind of messaging. the first flaw is that it's not completely accurate. seven to eight hours of sleep while recommended for adults is just an average and while message's have to be simplified for health communication to the public sometime important nuances get lost.
So, it's true that not getting enough sleep in the long term is associated with health problem's like cardiovascular disease diabetes and depression but fixating solely on seven to eight hour's ignores the fact that there's range of sleep that people need. the duration of a good night's sleep can be different for different people. some adults need eight but some are just fine on six. the second flaw with this kind of doomsday messaging is that it can be counter productive especially for people who do have trouble sleeping. for instance in 2019 it was estimated that 21 percent of adult's in the us we're wearing sleep tracking devices. and that number is probably growing and i get it. it's fascinating to see how much sleep you've gotten each night and to know what part of your night was spent in deep sleep or dreaming but having all of that sleep data is causing some people to become obsessed with it, so much so that it's leading to a condition some call orthosomnia, a preoccupation with the constant need to achieve perfect sleep. and the condition ironically is causing more sleep problems. now orthosomnia might be an extreme example but the anxiety of not getting enough sleep is keeping some of us up at night. so here what some experts are saying. stop fixating on the numbar because that can lead to unrealistic expectations of sleep.
Your probably don't need to worry about your sleep and if you're struggling with your sleep instead of buying expensive blue light filters or fancy sleep trackers try talking with your doctor to make sure there.
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