Snoring And Additional Problems
While snoring is caused by and can lead to a number
of physical health problems it is also responsible for mental health
and emotional issues.
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For those who are not afflicted with the condition
and are able to sleep without snoring but who live with a snorer,
life can become unbearable. Snoring has even been cited as grounds
for divorce.
It is not just the partner of a snorer who suffers. During sleeping
hours, anyone who is anywhere nearer someone who snores will suffer.
It may be other family members living in the same house; it may be
neighbours in an adjoining house. With noise levels from snoring
reaching the same decibel level as a jet engine – this noise can
travel, even through walls.
For anyone affected by snoring, the lack of sleep over an extended
period of time can have an emotional and mental impact which is
often hidden and not considered. It can be impossible for the
partner of a snorer to get to sleep, let alone stay asleep. |
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The effects of snoring can be far reaching
and are often not considered. Snoring has been known to
cause marital breakdown and divorce. People have been
evicted from their homes because of the noise nuisance
caused by their snoring. Snoring has ended friendships
between housemates. The daytime sleepiness that follows a
disturbed night of inadequate sleep has caused people to
lose their jobs. Snoring and the lack of sleep it causes
also causes poor memory and lack of concentration.
These are all hidden effects of snoring.
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The lack of sleep and the living conditions
caused by having a loud snorer in the house can lead to a
wide range of emotional and mental health problems
including:
• depression and anxiety
• exhaustion
• frustration
• anger and feelings of violence
• helplessness and anguish
• desperation
• resentment
• low levels of confidence and self esteem
For those who snore or who are affected by snoring it
becomes dangerous just to drive a vehicle to work and
operating heavy machinery or work in an otherwise
potentially dangerous environment is a real no-no. |
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Do not be tempted to underestimate these
sometimes hidden emotional and mental problems that snoring
causes. Snoring puts the lives of the snorer and
others at risk simply because of the knock-on effect the
resultant daytime sleepiness causes.
Whilst a lot of attention is paid to the physical problems
of snoring, the hidden or emotional problems of snoring are
often ignored or not considered. For the snorers themselves
there is the embarrassment of sleeping in public places. The
paradox is that snorers will do what they can to avoid the
embarrassment of sleeping anywhere in public but because
they are so sleep deprived they can and often do fall asleep
at the most inopportune times – usually waking themselves
after a very short period by the volume of their own
snoring.
It is important that the root cause of snoring is identified
and, were possible eradicated – for the sake of the physical
health of the snorer but also for the sake of the mental
health of everyone associated with them.
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