Describe insomnia disorder and contrast it with hypersomnia and narcolepsy
What will be an ideal response?
Primary insomnia refers to an inability to sleep that is not related to another medical or psychiatric problem. Such insomnia may be related to problems with the biological clock or temperature control, but can also stem from environmental influences such as changes in light, noise, or temperature. People may also have unrealistic expectations about how much they sleep and may even learn to associate sleep and things like their beds with anxiety and worry about sleep. Poor behaviors such as drug or alcohol use can interfere with sleep.
Hypersomnia is a problem of sleeping too much or feeling that one is sleeping too much. It seems to be genetically influenced, as hypersomnia runs in families, but it also may be related to viral infection exposure.
Narcolepsy is a specific sleep disorder characterized by daytime sleepiness, sudden loss of muscle tone (cataplexy), sleep paralysis, or a brief period after waking when it is hard to move or speak, and hypnagogic hallucinations or vivid scary experiences that begin at the start of sleep
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