PROBLEMS STICKING TO A REGULAR SLEEP SCHEDULE
Problems may also occur when you do not maintain a consistent sleep and wake schedule. This occurs when traveling between times zones and with shift workers on rotating schedules, particularly nighttime workers.
Sleep disruption disorders include:
- Irregular sleep-wake syndrome
- Jet lag syndrome
- Natural short sleeper (the person sleeps less hours than normal but has no ill effects)
- Paradoxical insomnia (the person actually sleeps a different amount than they think they do)
- Shift work sleep disorder
SLEEP-DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIORS
Abnormal behaviors during sleep are called parasomnias and are fairly common in children. They include:
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Sleep terrors -
Sleep walking - REM sleep-behavior disorder (a type of
psychosis in which a person"acts out" dreams so violently that they may injure the person sleeping with them)
