The Downside Of Sleeping Pills

For those suffering from a lack of quality sleep, taking prescription sleeping pills will seem to be an obvious and appealing way of finding relief. Whilst most who take sleeping pills will experience some short term benefit, there are a number of long term problems associated with their use. According to many doctors, people who regularly take sleeping tablets are likely to the following serious health issues:

• Addiction to sleeping pills
  A common result of taking sleeping pills is that the user quickly gets addicted to them. Sleeping pill addicts soon find that they cannot sleep at all without the pills.
  
  
• Weakness
  Addiction of sleeping pills can cause you to have a weakened body. These sleeping pills are high on chemicals that are harmful for our body. After a continuous consumption of sleeping pills, your body becomes so weak that you are not even able to carry out your regular work in a proper manner.
  
  
• Mental disability
  Long term use of sleeping pills effects one's mental capacity. Lack of concentration, slow reactions, degraded hand-eye-coordination and forgetfulness can all occur as a result of repeated use of prescription sleeping medication.
  
  
• Disrupted Sleeping Patterns
  In a few cases, addiction to sleeping pills can even lead to changes in the taker's sleeping patterns. We already know that we lose control over the nervous system due to sleeping pills. The situation even leads to the individual acquiring a habit of feeling dizzy at unusual time of the day. We start sleeping during afternoon hours, which eventually lead to an unbalanced pattern of sleeping. Ironically, the eventual outcome of such a broken sleeping habit is insomnia.
  

Alternatives to Sleeping Pills

There are many other ways to combat insomnia than relying on prescription medication, as can be found in other parts of this site:

• herbal insomnia remedies
  non-addictve natural cures that are proven to work
  herbal insomnia remedies »
  
  
• changing your lifestyle
  sometimes small changes to one's diet or exercise regime can make a big difference to one's ability to sleep well
  eat yourself to sleep »
  exercise & sleep »
  
  
• state of mind
  one can use creative visualizations and other mental techniques to battle insomnia
  insomnia visualizations : no more counting sheep »
  

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