80 percent of employees sleep badly: Health insurance lists the causes
Created: 05/09/2022, 10:19 am
By: Juliane Gutmann
Checking e-mails in the evening also has a negative effect on our sleep.
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Some people have a sleepless night from time to time.
But if this becomes the norm, you should take active countermeasures.
Because sleep not only keeps us healthy.
Anyone who has spent a night feeling the consequences immediately: tiredness, poor concentration and performance as well as a bad mood are among the possible effects.
The body's defenses also suffer.
Because during the sleep phases, the body regenerates and recharges its batteries for the next day.
If you don’t sleep enough all the time, you risk becoming more susceptible to infections.
Insomnia is not an uncommon phenomenon:
Since 2010, sleep disorders in working people between the ages of 35 and 65 have increased by 66 percent
, according to a DAK report.
As part of the DAK health report, 80 percent of those in employment state that they sleep poorly.
Extrapolated to the population, this is around 34 million people, it is said.
However, the severity of the sleep disorder varies greatly, with around ten percent of working people being affected by the serious sleep disorder insomnia, according to the result of the health report.
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Do not take sleeping pills for a long time without medical advice
The problem: Many people do not take their sleep disorders seriously and do not seek medical help.
But this is often essential because “sleep disorders increase the risk of
depression and anxiety
disorders, for example .
There may be a connection here with the sharp increase in sick leave reports for mental illnesses in recent years," says Andreas Storm, CEO of DAK-Gesundheit.
Taking sleeping pills on your own is not a long-term solution: "Today, too many drugs with the potential for addiction are still being taken for too long," explains Prof. Ingo Fietze, Head of the Interdisciplinary Sleep Medicine Center at the Charité in Berlin: "
It is important to treat with Leaving sleeping pills to trained doctors,
” the Adler pharmacy in Oestrich-Winkel quotes him as saying on their website.
Sleepless nights: an overview of the causes
As the DAK report shows, the main reasons behind sleep disorders in employees are as follows:
too much pressure and stress at work and generally the feeling of being overwhelmed
overtime
night shifts
constant availability after work
too much evening TV and PC use
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