Sleep is essential to your health, and how much quality sleep you get each night will directly impact both your mental and physical health.  As a result, a lack of sleep will negatively affect your mood. If you feel that you haven’t been sleeping well, here are a few ways it will affect your mental health and what steps you should take with your sleep wellness center to prevent it.

Sleep Wellness Center Guide: The Relationship Between Sleep & Mood

How Lack of Sleep Impacts Mood

Studies have shown that whether you get enough of the right type of sleep has a direct impact on your mental wellbeing. When you’re sleep-deprived, you’re likely to experience negative modes such as irritability, sadness, anger, frustration, difficulty concentrating, and lack of energy. It can even increase your risk of developing a mood disorder such as clinical depression or anxiety. Additionally, you can lose the ability to regulate your moods. This means you might feel hostile or sad over nothing and cannot control the fact that you feel that way.

What to Do

Many conditions can lead to a lack of sleep such as insomnia, sleep apnea, narcolepsy, and more. The best solution is to go to a sleep wellness center for a study. They will set you up with an overnight stay and monitor things such as your brain waves, heart rate, and breathing while you sleep. After the sleep study, they’ll analyze the data to diagnose what’s causing your lack of sleep and determine an effective treatment plan.

The sleep wellness center at Island Hospital offers state-of-the-art care and reliable solutions for patients in western Skagit County, WA, North Whidbey Island, and the San Juan Islands. It has been recognized as one of the country’s most innovative small hospitals thanks to its advanced technology and specialized staff training. In addition to sleep care, their hospital has a walk-in clinic, cancer center, birth center and more. See their full range of services online and call (360) 299-1300 to schedule an appointment.