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#319651 - 06/08/08 10:25 PM
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how many sleep hours does a 20 year old male need? does the hours needed go on age and sex or size? how is hours of sleep determind?
i'm wondering this cuz i been wakign up an hour to hour half before i need to in the morning. I'm finally sleeping good (havent needed a pill since the shit happend with me and shannon last month.) i been off my sleep pill stright for tabout two weeks. i'm just trying to figure out why i;m wakign up so early. i'm not dreaming or anything. it's bugging me.. it be nice to sleep o my alarm clock.
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#319652 - 06/08/08 10:28 PM
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Normally, it is recommended that adults get 8 hours of sleep every night.
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#319653 - 06/08/08 10:47 PM
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i'm getting more than the 8 hours. it seems the latter i go to bed the earler i get up. liek sat night i was up till after 12 and i woke up this morning at almost 7. i COULD have slep in. now it;s not even 10 yet and i;m gettign sleepy but if i go to bed now i;ll be up at 5 in the morning. i don't know what's going on or how to fix it.
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#319656 - 06/08/08 10:55 PM
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The pill would have affected your sleeping patterns, but since you don't take it now .... all I can say is, the cptsd will sure affect your sleep.
If enough can't be done at one time, a nap may help.
You're probably better off without that pill, but it may take a while to adjust to being without it.
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#319721 - 06/09/08 08:11 PM
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So I just wait it out and hopefully it will fix it’s self…..or get used to waking up at 5 or 6 in the morning.. uggg
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#319953 - 06/12/08 10:42 AM
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Hey CR, give it time. I'm gonna go out on a limb and bet, your pill helped you sleep like my booze helped me. It took about a month for me to sleep well (all night) without it. I was up insanely early, and going to bed at all sorts of hours. Some nights I was ready to hit the hay at 7pm and other nights it was 1am...but then up before the family (they start rolling out at 6am).
Now I am in bed around 10pm and up between 6:30 and 7:30...that is a bit more normal for me.
Give it a chance, you should be sleeping normally long before summer is over.
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#320047 - 06/12/08 08:43 PM
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that sounds about right. last night i started getting sleepy after 8. it's 7:40 now and i'm starting to fill it. I get home i take a shower and throw on soem shorts and then i just want to go to sleep. my body better hurry up and deal cuz i don;t liek this.
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#320051 - 06/12/08 11:01 PM
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I read that 6-8 of sleep everynight is good.. and anything over 9 isn't healthy.
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#320053 - 06/12/08 11:11 PM
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That's a pretty strong statement. My doctor has told me to get 9-10 hours of sleep a night, and also many sleep studies have shown that people will sleep more than eight hours if there are no alarm clocks or daylight (the study was done in the arctic)
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#320054 - 06/12/08 11:17 PM
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See if there's any useful information in this article.
How Much Sleep Do You Really Need? By LAURA BLUE
Tue Jun 10, 4:00 PM ET
Sleep is one of the richest topics in science today: why we need it, why it can be hard to get, and how that affects everything from our athletic performance to our income. Daniel Kripke, co-director of research at the Scripps Clinic Sleep Center in La Jolla, Calif., has looked at the most important question of all. In 2002, he compared death rates among more than 1 million American adults who, as part of a study on cancer prevention, reported their average nightly amount of sleep. To many his results were surprising, but they've since been corroborated by similar studies in Europe and East Asia. Kripke explains.
Q: How much sleep is ideal?
A: Studies show that people who sleep between 6.5 hours and 7.5 hours a night, as they report, live the longest. And people who sleep 8 hours or more, or less than 6.5 hours, they don't live quite as long. There is just as much risk associated with sleeping too long as with sleeping too short. The big surprise is that long sleep seems to start at 8 hours. Sleeping 8.5 hours might really be a little worse than sleeping five.
Morbidity, [or sickness,] is also "U-shaped," in the sense that both very short sleep and very long sleep are associated with many illnesses - with depression, with obesity, and therefore with heart disease and so forth. But the [ideal amount of sleep] for different health measures isn't all in the same place. Most of the "low points" are at seven or eight hours, but there are some at six and some even at nine. I think diabetes is lowest in seven-hour sleepers, [for example]. But these measures aren't as clear as the mortality data.
I think we can speculate [about why people who sleep 6.5 to 7.5 hours live longer], but we have to admit that we don't really understand the reasons. We don't really know yet what is cause and what is effect. So we don't know if a short sleeper can live longer by extending their sleep, and we don't know if a long sleeper can live longer by setting the alarm clock a bit earlier. We're hoping to organize tests of those questions.
One of the reasons I like to publicize these facts is that I think we can prevent a lot of insomnia and distress just by telling people that short sleep is OK. We've all been told you ought to sleep eight hours, but there was never any evidence. A very common problem we see at sleep clinics is people who spend too long in bed. They think they should sleep eight hours or nine hours, so they spend eight or nine hours in bed, with the result that they have trouble falling asleep and they wake up a lot during the night. Oddly enough, a lot of the problem [of insomnia] is lying in bed awake worrying about it. There have been many controlled studies in the United States, Great Britain and other parts of Europe that show that an insomnia treatment that involves getting out of bed when you're not sleepy, and restricting your time in bed, actually helps people to sleep more. They get over their fear of the bed. They get over the worry, and they become confident that when they go to bed they will sleep. So spending less time in bed actually makes sleep better. It is in fact a more powerful and effective long-term treatment for insomnia than sleeping pills. View this article on Time.com
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#320055 - 06/12/08 11:17 PM
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If i sleep more than 9-10 hours i feel crappy thru the day... and very lazy
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#320056 - 06/12/08 11:20 PM
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Yes, well, all I was saying is that you can't generalize what's true for you for everyone.
The majority of folks do pretty good on what Radeckl just said, but it doesn't apply for everyone. The key is to find out how much sleep is right for you, and don't get frightened by the rules about how much you should sleep.
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#320058 - 06/12/08 11:27 PM
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I didn't say it like that.
I was just saying how it was for me. My bf can sleep like 10-12 hours and it drives me nuts! He sleeps wayyy too long.. if we have sleepovers ill wake up at like 9-10 and he'll still want to sleep in until 1.
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#320059 - 06/12/08 11:29 PM
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All right, I guess I just misinterpreted the tone in your first post on this thread, no worries.
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#320060 - 06/12/08 11:35 PM
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no worries, i get how some posts can sound bitchy. You know I didnt mean it all like that tho. I guess im bad for wording things wrong.
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#320061 - 06/12/08 11:39 PM
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Hey, have you seen my response to your "what do you do when you're sad" thread?
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#320098 - 06/13/08 05:11 AM
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I can easily sleep 10 or 12 or sometimes even more hours. I don't want to, and I try not to but I can't wake up in the morning, I just fade in and out of being semi-awake and dreaming. And there are often rather crap dreams becuase my body does want to wake up, I just cant....
10 hours of sleep is the best.I spose I just find sleep comforting, when I was depressed I used to sleep from 1am till 4 or 5 pm because your not depressed when your asleep.
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