Insomnia Test - How to Identify Insomnia

Have you been sleeping badly lately? Here I provide a simple insomnia test to help you identify if you're running a light or serious insomnia problem. Before that, let me explain the actual definition of insomnia.

It simply means the inability to obtain sufficient sleep, especially when chronic. But that doesn't mean you'll always feel lousy even if you don't sleep a wink the night before. It depends on multiple factors. Let's do a simple test for insomnia and see if your sleep disorder requires much attention or not.

1. Do you find yourself difficult to fall asleep at night? While others take 5 minutes to drift into slumberland, you normally take anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours.

2. You feel extremely tired, but your mind just cannot stop running with ideas or worrying about what's going to happen the following day.

3. You wake up early despite you sleep late the night before.

4. Once awaken at night, you would have trouble falling asleep again.

5. You wake up on and off in the middle of your sleep.

6. You sleep early, and catch 7 - 8 hours of sleep, but you still wake up tired and weak.

7. You snore throughout the night (you may not realize this until someone tells you).

Now take note, if any or more of the abovementioned occur to you only once in few weeks, then it isn't much of a problem for you. You're likely to not have chronic sleep disorder (based on this quick insomnia test). But this may gradually develop into chronic condition if you let it occur without being mindful of your lifestyle.

On the other hand, if you've already been plagued by just one of them for 2 - 3 days in a week and consistently over a period of 2 - 3 weeks or even months, then you're in for a serious insomniac problem. You gotta find out the cause of it, and then nip it in the bud.

Insomniacs normally will turn to GP for sleeping pills. But taking pills isn't a good and healthy solution because the effect of each type of pill will vanish after 2 - 3 weeks. Are you going to dope yourself for the rest of your life? How much money are you preparing to invest in sleeping drugs? Worst, they'll ruin your chances of sleeping all by yourself as you'll become dependent to them.

Don't waste your money on those chemical substances that can bring about unforeseen side effects you won't know how serious you'll get when they set in. I'd rather you go find some natural insomnia remedies and treat your insomnia the healthy way.