December 7th, 2011 | 
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If you live with someone that has sleep disorders, then you might not realize just how terrible their nightlife is. When someone suffers from a sleep disorder, they can be pretty miserable. Sleep comes uneasily to them. They can lie in bed for hours and not get any rest. Often times, they have given up on getting relief. Instead, they have consigned themselves to sleepless nights.
Some roommates, or parents, will complain about the sleepless people in their lives. They will tell them to get some sleep and stop being reckless with their life. This is an incredibly uninformed complaint. These people that can’t sleep would love to be sleeping. They envy the ability to quickly fall asleep. They aren’t up because they want to be. They are up because they have to be.
Now, sometimes people with sleep disorders can be a little annoying. If they watch TV loudly while others are trying to sleep, then a talk is necessary. If they are doing anything that keeps others from sleeping, then a discussion will need to occur. This discussion will present to them the idea that other people can sleep but that they are robbing them of that opportunity. This discussion should not accuse them of being hippies that stay up all night because they like to.
There are some people who pretend to have sleep disorders when they actually do not. It takes them the same amount of time to fall asleep as everyone else. They would just rather be awake. If they are being productive, than that is okay. The sad thing is that these people will often stay up because it is easier to slack off in the night. When people who work go to bed, it’s easier for the lazy to get away with not doing anything. People like this give a negative stereotype to people with actual problems.
It shouldn’t be difficult to tell the divergence between these two subsets of people. The lazy people will never accomplish anything. The people with actual sleep disorders will be more aggravated with what the lack of sleep is doing to their life. A five minute discussion with the person should let you know which group they belong to.
People with sleep disorders deserve the compassion of people without their condition. Those who sleep well cannot understand what it’s like to have gone a lifetime without a good night of sleep. It can be a grueling condition. It is a situation that will only be made worse if someone tells them they need to sleep more.
Hopefully this will assist people in understanding the plight of the sleepless night. Sleep disorders are real things. For some people, there is no easy cure. They have a real condition that needs to be respected.
Everyone needs sleep. It is rest for the body and the mind. Those who can’t sleep are continuously being tortured by different forms of exhaustion. They deserve the compassion of the sleepers, and not their pestering.
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Tags: Amount Of Time, Hippies, Negative Stereotype, Nightlife, People, Sad Thing, Sleep Disorders, Subsets