By: Yuliana Loria Villalobos
Teenagers currently
don’t get enough sleep, usually because they have overloaded school hours or
because they spend too much time texting until sunrise. On the contrary, other adolescents
sleep more than 8-9 hours per day, causing poor development of their mental and
physical health. The consequences of oversleeping (hypersomnia) have pushed the
teenager’s body to the limit.
Let’s begin by looking
at the main causes of this health problem. Researchers stated that oversleeping
can occur for a lot of different causes, but people experiment three that are
the common ones. Firstly, the lack of nocturnal sleep. It’s related to
cellphone addiction and also with their responsibilities in high school or
universities that contribute to having a bad sleep schedule. Secondly, sleep
apnea syndrome, a breathing disorder in which people cannot sleep at night
because their lungs stop breathing and that action interrupts their sleep, so
people avoid it because their worst nightmare is to lose their lives when they
are sleeping. And the third one is depression. Nowadays, teenagers are
exposed to bullying and familiar problems, and usually, they fell themselves
like a deer in the headlines when they are in the real world.
Oversleeping has many
long and short-term effects. Believe it or not, everything you read previously
can lead a person with hypersomnia to serious consequences such as degenerative
diseases that can cause greater probabilities of developing Alzheimer's
disease and dementia. On the other hand, it can increase body pain, such
as back pain, headache, neck pain, and fatigue. Last but not least,
oversleeping can cause the worst consequence in your body due to heart
problems, death.
What are you waiting to
get out of your bed and enjoy life since the sun rises? Enjoy it because you
will only live once.
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