What is insomnia

A good night’s sleep is essential for your health, providing rest and restoration for the mind and the body. Insomnia, also known as sleeplessness, is a common sleep disorder where you have trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, or waking up too early, and it interferes with your daytime functioning in some way. It affects both men and women, although females and the elderly are typically affected the most. The condition can be short-term (acute), long-term (chronic), or it may come and go.

Did you know?

Insomnia is the most common sleep disorder, with one in three people having some difficulty with sleeping.

Everyone needs different amounts of sleep. Not getting eight hours of sleep every night, for example, does not mean your health is at risk. Some of us do fine on six hours of sleep a night. Others of us only do well if we get ten to eleven hours of sleep a night.

On average we need:

Adults: 7 - 9 hours
Children: 9 - 13 hours
Toddlers and babies: 12 - 17 hours