Insomnia, please go away...

You can’t fall asleep, you have trouble maintaining sleep, or you’re waking up too soon? You probably have one of the ten most common types of insomnia. Because of that, you need to watch what you eat and drink, get rid of stress and be as relaxed as possible.

You can’t fall asleep, you have trouble maintaining sleep, or you’re waking up too soon? If you are lying awake for hours at night, it doesn’t immediately mean that you suffer from insomnia, but you are probably close to that diagnosis. 

Insomnia can manifest itself in many ways. Experts who are dealing with sleep disorders are trying to discover the underlying causes of insomnia that are caused by various medical and psychological conditions. Here are ten most common types of insomnia.

1. General insomnia

Insomnia is generally defined as a disturbance of sleep during which the person cannot sleep, is having difficulties to maintain sleep or is waking up too early.  This disorder is also known as poor sleep quality.

2. Acute insomnia

Acute or short-term insomnia is often caused by stress. Sleep problems disappear when stress ceases or when you put it under control. Sleep disturbance doesn’t  have to occur only when  something negative is happening to you. It can be caused and with positive things. Positive things may produce stress caused by great excitement.

3. Behavioral insomnia in childhood

This type of insomnia occurs when children do not go to bed at specific time. If they are sent to bed every night at specific time, they tend to sleep according to specific schedule. If there is no specific schedule, they can be dragged awake throughout the night.

4. Idiopathic insomnia

This type of insomnia is an ongoing sleep disorder that begins in childhood and continues later in life. There is no explanation of what is causing it, but it was determined that it is nothing of the following: other sleep disorders, health problems, stress, psychological problems and drugs.

5. Insomnia due to substances

This type of insomnia is directly related to the use of some of the following substances: drugs, caffeine, alcohol and certain foods. If this is really your case, the problem will vanish when you stop using some of those substances.

 6. Insomnia due to health problems

This insomnia is caused by certain mental health disorders. How will the sleeping problem progress, depends on the state of mental health. Insomnia should be a separate part of the treatment, in addition to treatment of mental disorder that some person maid have. However, this type of insomnia is treated only if it is a big problem and if the doctor assesses that it requires a special treatment.

7. Inorganic or indeterminate insomnia

When all known substances and other physical causes are ruled out, then we have this type of insomnia. This means that the cause of it is psychological factor. Inorganic or indeterminate insomnia is a diagnosis that is used on an interim basis, until the exact cause of insomnia is determined  or when the patient doesn’t meet any criteria that can link him to some other type of insomnia.

8. Organic or determined insomnia

This insomnia is caused with health disorders, physical conditions and substances to which we expose ourselves. Detailed examinations are necessary to detect the real cause. Until we find out what is causing it, we call that type of disorder organic insomnia.

9. Paradoxical insomnia

It embodies several types of insomnia, but there are no objective indicators that there exists a sleep disorder. Although a person maid complain about sleep disorder, there are no serious consequences that affect that person during the day. People who have this type of insomnia often report little or no sleep for several nights. The main characteristic is overestimation of time necessary to fall asleep, and underestimation of total sleep time.

10. Psychophysiological insomnia

This insomnia is associated with excessive concern about inability to fall asleep. It can occur suddenly as a result of some event or gradually during several years. People who have this disorder are too concerned about their insomnia and fatigue that occurs the next day because they didn’t get any sleep. As a result, they become tensioned and anxious every time they go to bed. They can have disturbing thoughts that are related to insomnia and efforts to fall asleep. The more they think about it, they are becoming more strained, which in turn reduces the likelihood of falling asleep.

Tips – Don’t look at watch, sit down in a chair and read a book

Don’t do this at night if you have insomnia:

-    Do not constantly watch at the clock.
-    If you can’t sleep, don’t lie awake in bed for more than 15 minutes - sit down in a comfortable chair.
-    Do not turn on bright lights - dim lighting, light from the TV or monitor is better.
-    Don’t do anything too stimulating, do something that relaxes the brain - read a book or watch a TV show.

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12 Secrets of Better Orgasm!

If you cannot experience climax in sex, you should know that you are not the only one and that there is help. These are some tips that can help you improve your sex life and increase your sex experience.

If you have problems to reach orgasm, you should know that you are not the only one and that this problem brings misery to many men, and especially women.  Before you start to think you have some health problems, you should first consider several things. The reasons are sometimes cultural or psychological. That is why many people consider sex a taboo subject, while some have problems with orgasm because in the past they had negative sexual experiences or because they are ashamed of their bodies. The first step in solving this problem is to try to better know yourself and discover what excites you. Here are some 12 tips that can help you reach climax during sex.

1. Hit the hot spots. A position that allows friction can help you reach orgasm during sexual intercourse. Try the on top position so that the top of the clitoris is rubbing directly the pubic bone of your partner. Or lie on your back with a pillow under your buttocks. You can also try using a vibrator during intercourse.

2. Discuss about it. Men really want from you to guide them. Let your partner know if he is on the right track, either by telling him or by “showing” him with your moans.

3. Find out what excites you. You cannot guide your partner if you do not know what excites you. To train your body to reach orgasm, you need to masturbate. This is the most common advice of sex coaches.

4. Train your orgasmic muscles. Kegel exercises are classic exercises for women who want to transform weak orgasm into phenomenal. These pelvic muscles you can find yourself. They are the muscles of the pelvic or vaginal part. Tighten and relax them. Do Kegel exercises every day, several times a day.

5. The risk is exciting.  Researches show that common pursuit of excitement, whether is it hiking or watching a horror movie, stimulates dopamine in the brain that triggers sexual arousal.

6. Delay the satisfaction. The longer you are piling up the excitement, the bigger explosion you get. Bring yourself close to orgasm, and then delay it or "simmer". Repeat this several times before you experience climax.

7. Focus on your breathing. Tantric sex may sound like something new, but its basic principle is focusing on your breathing, and that increases the pleasure. You can use your breath to channel sexual energy. Partners who breathe in tandem can delay orgasm, and create greater accumulation, which increases satisfaction.

8. Explore the erotic. Hard-core pornography is not the definition of erotic. Erotic movies and books can be very good for awakening passion, which increases the chances for better orgasm. Some erotic movies are full of erotic charge, and they have a plot. Literature is also recommended, as well as erotic series in which women are main protagonists.

9. Creative foreplay. If you need more time than your partner to warm up, start the foreplay by sending emails or sexy SMS, but without being too graphic, since emails do not ensure privacy.

10. Check your medications. Women are, more likely than men, taking antidepressants, which, as is known, may adversely affect sexual life. If you have problems because of these medications, talk to your doctor so that he changes your therapy.

11. Get help from the expert. If you are not among those who easily reach orgasm, expert’s advice may be useful. Nerve damage or low testosterone levels may create a problem. Your doctor can do a medical examination and determine which factors are causing this. You can also look for help from sex therapist.

12. Relax. In a recent French study, in which 500 women took part, it was discovered that in more than 70 percent of them, stress threatens their sex drive. Low libido obviously decreases the chances of orgasm. Because of this, all that disturbs you leave it in front of your bedroom door.

Female orgasm lasts longer. The average male orgasm lasts about six seconds, while female orgasm lasts about twenty seconds. This difference in duration can be viewed as some kind of compensation because women need much longer foreplay. Of course, length and intensity of orgasm vary from person to person and from day to day.

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