Understanding Sleeping Disorders
Most of us have experienced trouble sleeping at one time or another. This is normal and usually temporary, due to stress or other outside factors. But if sleep problems are a regular occurrence and interfere with your daily life, you may be suffering from a sleep disorder.
Sleep disorders cause more than just sleepiness. The lack of quality sleep can have a negative impact on your energy, emotional balance and health.
Insomnia: The most common type of sleep disorder
This is inability to get the amount of sleep you need to wake up feeling rested and refreshed, is the most common sleep complaint. Insomnia is often a symptom of another problem, such as stress, anxiety, depression, or an underlying health condition. It can also be caused by lifestyle choices, including the medication you take, lack of exercise, jet lag, or even the amount
of coffee you drink. Acute insomnia is usually short-term, and is related to stress. Chronic insomnia lasts for a month or more.
- Difficulty falling asleep at night or getting back to sleep after waking during the night
- Waking up frequently during the night
- Your sleep feels light, fragmented, or exhausting
- You need to take something (sleeping pills, nightcap, supplements) in order to get to sleep
- Sleepiness and low energy during the day
Is it a sleep disorder?
Do you. . .
If you answered “YES” to any of the previous questions, you may have a sleep disorder.
Solution?
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Psychosis refers to an abnormal psychiatric condition which affects the mind and puts it a state involving a loss of contact with reality. It may involve hallucinations, delusions and aggressive behavior.
Schizophrenia on the other hand is characterized by a break down in thought processes and lack of appropriate emotional responses. Common symptoms include auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking, and it is accompanied by significant social or occupational dysfunction.
These two psychiatric conditions can be helped and managed effectively with recent advances in neuropsychology. People with psychiatric illnesses usually have
abnormal brain wave activity. With a neuorfeedback assessment, a valid diagnosis of the condition can be gotten and consequently neurofeedback can be used to train those aspects of the brain emitting abnormal brainwave activity.
Psychosis and Schizophrenia can be managed with medications as antipsychotics, but studies are evident on the side effects and possible relapse after a
year of stopping medication. As a result of this most people with these illnesses, end up taking the drugs for life. It is in a bid to establish treatment modalities that have no side effects and lead to lasting changes that researchers Surmeli, Ertem, Eralp and Kos (2012) investigated the efficacy of quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG)-guided neurofeedback (NF) treatment in a population of schizophrenics, and whether this method has an effect on concurrent medical treatment and on the patients. The study showed that neurofeedback was effective. Read more
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Have you recently lost a loved one?,
Experienced serious injury in an accident?, or
Lost a job?
Have you been experiencing any of the following:
- Flashbacks, or reliving the traumatic event for minutes or even days at a time
- Upsetting dreams about the traumatic event
- Trying to avoid thinking or talking about the traumatic event
- Feeling emotionally numb
- Avoiding activities you once enjoyed
- Hopelessness about the future
- Irritability or anger
- Trouble concentrating
- Difficulty maintaining close relationships
- Self-destructive behavior, such as drinking too much
- Trouble sleeping
- Being easily startled or frightened
- Hearing or seeing things that aren’t there
- Memory problems
- Overwhelming guilt or shame
Post traumatic stress disorder(PTSD) is a severe condition that may develop after a person is exposed to one or more traumatic events, such as sexual assault, serious injury or the threat of death.
Our therapy modalities including Biofeedback, Neurofeedback and Audio Visual Entrainment can help your overcome all the symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder. Leading researchers and medical practitioners have recommended Neurofeedback as effective in the treatment of PTSD. Researchers have also shown that Audio Visual Entrainment Devices are very effective in reducing symptoms of anxiety, insomnia and depression that may come with PTSD
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder characterized by intrusive
thoughts that produce uneasiness, apprehension, fear, or worry; by repetitive behaviors aimed at reducing the associated anxiety; or by a combination of such obsessions and compulsions
Do you find yourself battling with symptoms like:
- Hand washing until your skin becomes raw
- Checking doors repeatedly to make sure they’re locked
- Checking the cooker repeatedly to make sure it’s off
- Counting in certain patterns
- Arranging your canned goods to face the same way
- Fear of being contaminated by shaking hands or by touching objects others have touched
- Doubts that you’ve locked the door or turned off the stove
- Thoughts that you’ve hurt someone in a traffic accident
- Intense stress when objects aren’t orderly or facing the right way
- Images of hurting your child
- Impulses to shout obscenities in inappropriate situations
- Avoidance of situations that can trigger obsessions, such as shaking hands
- Replaying pornographic
images in your mind
- Dermatitis because of frequent hand washing
- Skin lesions because of picking at your skin
- Hair loss or bald spots because of hair pulling
Then, you may just be battling with OCD, Call us TODAY for an assessment.
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Developmental Dyslexia is a learning disorder marked by persistent
difficulty in learning to read in children who possess otherwise normal intelligence, motivation, and educational opportunity.
Did your child have a speech delay? This is a common characteristic of children with dyslexia.
Other signs include:
- Letter reversal or mirror writing
- Difficulty generating rhyming words
- Lack of Phonological awareness that is counting syllables in words
- Difficulty segmenting words into sounds
- Difficulty blending sounds to make words
- Difficulty with word retrieval and naming problems
- Poor spelling
- Whole word guessing e.g child read the first two letters in “fork” and guesses it it “food”
Some children grow up without dealing with this problem and may have the following symptoms of dyslexia as adults:
- Poor memory skills
- Difficulty remembering what was read
- Forgetting directions
- Time management problems
- Difficulty in concentrating
- Difficulty understanding what was read
- Dependence on digital watches
- Slow reading
- Restlessness
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Dysgraphia is a specific learning difficulty implicated in the ability to transcribe. It is characterized by an impairment in handwriting skills, processing written letters into words and finger sequencing. A child whose written expression and writing skills are below the expected, given a person’s age measured through intelligence and age appropriate education may have dysgraphia.
It is associated with other conditions as ADHD, speech and language disorders and developmental coordination disorder. People having dysgraphia can often write but may lack some other fine motor skills, they may find tasks such as tying shoes difficult. They usually have unusual difficulty with handwriting and spelling which in turn can tiredness when writing. Such children avoid having to take notes in class. They may also lack basic grammar and spelling skills (difficulties writing the letters p, q, b, and d), and will often write the wrong word when trying to formulate their thoughts on paper.
Children with dysgraphia usually present with the following signs:
- Cramping of fingers while writing short entries
- Odd wrist, arm, body, or paper orientations
- Excessive mistakes while writing
- Mixed upper case and lower case letters
- Inconsistent form and size of letters, or unfinished letters
- Misuse of lines and margins
- Inefficient speed of copying
- Inattentiveness over details when writing
- Frequent need of verbal cues
- Referring heavily on vision to write
- Poor legibility
- Handwriting abilities that may interfere with spelling and written composition
- Having a hard time translating ideas to writing, sometimes using the wrong words altogether
This writing difficulty stems from dysfunctions in other cognitive processes as outlined by Dr. Mel Levine which are found below:
| COGNITIVE PROCESS |
WRITING CHALLENGE THAT CAN RESULT |
| Attention |
- Difficulty planning, initiating and completing writing task.
- Mental fatigue from writing.
|
Spatial ordering |
Challenge in organizing letters, words, or sentence on a page. |
| Sequential ordering and |
A hard time determining the correct or logical order of letters, ideas etc. |
| Memory |
- Difficulties remembering what should be automatic in the writing process, such as recalling, spelling, grammar, and punctuation rules.
- Trouble recalling prior knowledge and organizing ideas.
|
| Language |
Difficulties using language and improving language abilities |
| Higher-ordering cognition |
A hard time bringing original thought, creativity, or critical thinking skills to the writing task. |
| Graphomotor |
Trouble coordinating the small muscles of the fingers to manipulate writing instruments. |
By using Neurofeedback and Brain Training strategies, dysgraphia and its associated learning difficulties can be resolved.
Research by Walker (2012) has shown the effectiveness of neurofeedback in treating dysgraphics. During his research procedure, twenty-four individuals with refractory dysgraphia went through a quantitative electroencephalogram (QEEG) to determine abnormalities of critical writing areas (left frontal and central). These abnormalities were trained consequently with 5–10 sessions of neurofeedback. This was done to decrease excessive slow or fast activity in those areas. All 24 experienced significant improvement in handwriting. Two individuals who stopped the training did not improve over a similar time period.
Walker J. E.,(2012). QEEG-Guided Neurofeedback for Remediation of Dysgraphia. Biofeedback:
Fall 2012, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 113-114
