Side effects resulting from sleep deprivation

While lack of sufficient sleep regularly may be normal for you, sleep deprivation and physical, emotional, and cognitive effects can harm you in the short and long term.

You will have less energy during the day, excessive sleep that makes it difficult to concentrate, your time of reaction gets worse, you may have nervousness and mood problems, and that can make your memory worse, your decision making and your problem solving skills.

All these things can reduce your performance at work or at school, make you unhappy and endanger your accidents.

In the long term, sleep deprivation has been linked to a wide range of health problems, from weight to diabetes, heart disease, and other cardiovascular problems.

A less common problem related to sleep deprivation is mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, and reduced quality of life.

You shouldn't be an expert in the stages of your sleep cycle, but it's important to understand that you have to go through all four stages of eye movement, light sleep, deep sleep and rapid sleep of eye movement.

It is believed that NREM and REM are the most sensitive stages of “Updated” that you have after a good night's sleep.