We refer to
it as sleep debt, it is cumulative and its effects are detrimental.
West Virginia University Professor of psychology and pediatrics, Hawley Montgomery Downs, studies the effect of sleep disruption on first - time mothers, and says research has shown that
as sleep debt racks up, postpartum women can become as cognitively impaired as an intoxicated person.
Not exact matches
As a culture we seem to always be concerned about how much
sleep we need versus how much
sleep we're actually getting (called your «
sleep debt»).
TRY IT:
Sleeping for
as little
as an hour less than you need to each night incrementally nets a costly
sleep debt according to studies at University of Pennsylvania and the Walter Reed Research Institute.
Any accumulated
sleep debt will be fully felt during withdrawal
as well.
Sleep debt can impair cortisol balance
as well.
Throwing your tax refund at your
debt probably isn't nearly
as fun
as whatever else you were planning, but it might help you
sleep better at night.
As Joe says, you have to be at a level you are comfortable with, can
sleep at night, and try to limit your bad
debt by showing some delayed gratification when you are starting off.
Your
debt interferes with other essential aspects of your life, such
as relationships and your ability to
sleep.
But
sleep debt, or deprivation, can lead to fatigue and even breakdown — a problem
as common among artists
as it is among the rest of the humankind.