Causes of Delayed Sleep Syndrome

Does your major sleep episode delayed by 2 or more hours of the desired bedtime that causes you to have difficulty awakening at the desired time? If so, then it is possible that you are suffering from delayed sleep phase syndrome. Read on as this article gives facts about the said syndrome.

The condition in which people find difficulty in sleeping on desired bedtime and then wake up at desired time in morning is known as delayed sleep syndrome. This sleep disorder is dependent upon one’s biological clock which monitors and regulates sleeping hours around daily activities.

Though it’s a sleep disorder, people having this syndrome just needs normal sleeping patterns. The only hindrance one has to face is sticking to a proper schedule of sleep, that is, traditional sleeping hours.

Its causes are more internal than external. These are built in problems like variations in rhythms of the body which cause disorder in sleep-wake cycle. This is the same as feeling jet lagged after a long airplane trip, but experienced for a longer duration of time.

This unusual phenomenon puts one in many cumbersome scenarios. People usually face problems in concentrating on their jobs in the early hours of the day They wake up late in the morning and the morning leads to principal social complications, and dependency on family members and colleagues increases.

There are many other complications that arise because of this like getting addicted to short naps, anxiety, insomnia, feeling uncomfortable all the time and agitation at night.

With the rapid advancement in medical science, there are many effective techniques to cure this problem but the success of any method cannot be predicted. The most employed techniques are chronotherapy, bright light therapy, using sleep inducers like melatonin. These are mostly used for severe cases.

Mild cases are treated in a different way. Like they are not put to standard techniques rather are more directed towards some basic corrections in daily routine. They are asked to avoid naps, develop a wake-sleep and then stick to it even on weekends, avoiding caffeine or nicotine and alcohol at least 4-6 hours before they go to the bed. Sleep disorder needs careful consideration to be fixed.