Sleep...

There are 3 basic needs a person needs to survive... Water, Food and sleep. Without sleep a person is susceptible to Type II Diabetes, decreased language processing, decreased memory, psychosis, Bi-polar disorder, heart disease, increase stress hormones=more stress, enhanced hypothalmic activity( body regulation, digestion, mood, energy usage) impaired ability to reaction/function, and obesity. I have struggled with insomnia (diagnosed with multiple sleep studies) my entire life. I mean I quit taking naps when I was 2... Who does that??? I was on sleeping pills through high school and college because not only can I not fall asleep, when I do fall asleep I wake up constantly. Now these sleeping wern't the addicting sleep aid business, oh nooooo more like the sedative that just induces a coma like state.. woo hoo Ask my friend Steph about the effects of my lovely sleeping pills!!! haha This year, with the decrease in stress due to not being in grad school AND working a full time job has helped some, and I have been sleeping more regularly with out my trusty sleeping pills, but here in the past month, I have been averaging if i'm lucky 4 hours of sleep a night... this week more like 2. i'm thinking it's coma time again... Just in time for summer woo hoo!!! At least I have a reason/cause for being fat now... haha