Americans Are Stressed With the Economy And Many Are Not Sleeping From Financial Stress
We as Americans Are Stressed With the Economy And Many Are Not Sleeping From Financial Stress and a new poll finds that Americans are sleeping less because of economic stress and demands of modern life.
Yes, we as Baby Boomers are stressed over the economy and many of us are not sleeping right because of financial stress. This is a health issue for Baby Boomers.
Our day seems shorter-forget the fact that we lose an hour of time this weekend-schedules are crammed and precious sleep hours are sacrificed. We are expected to give more and more and we are seeping less and less…tossing, turning or working. When will it stop?
Released the first of March in 2008, the National Sleep Foundation’s annual poll estimated that Americans get an average of about 6.7 hours of sleep during a weekday, making the annual Sleep in America gradually decreasing.
Over the last decade, the poll indicates that a growing percentage of Americans is getting less than six hours of sleep and the number of people who get eight or more hours is dwindling. Granted, some people need less, but more is better when sleep is concerned.
A little but about the National Sleep Foundation…The poll had a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points. National Sleep Foundation is a nonprofit organization of researchers, patients and health care facilities. It does not solicit or accept funding for its annual Sleep in America polls.
“In the last few years, we’ve seen the economy take a nose dive, and more people are affected by that,” said Dr. Raj Kakar, a medical director at the Dallas Center for Sleep Disorders. “More people are stressed. Stress is associated with sleep deprivation, anxiety, depression and sleeplessness. The economy is a major factor why people are losing sleep.”
People Sleeping Less Than 6 Hours:
1998: 12 percent
2002: 15 percent
2009: 20 percent
People Sleeping More Than 8 Hours:
1998: 35 percent
2002: 30 percent
2009: 28 percent
The findings only verify a survey conducted by the American Psychological Association, which reported last year that 52 percent of 7,000 respondents were losing sleep at night from stress.
Aside from financial anxieties, in only 10 short years, society has become more around-the clock and more complicated.
“This has been more insidious over two decades,” Kakar said. “With the advent of the Internet, cell phone, Blackberries, we’re seeing our society is increasingly 24-7. People are able to be active at any time from anywhere, and it causes people to be more active around the clock. This increased activity is essentially giving sleep less importance.”
It could be that life in 2009 has more distractions, stated Dr. David Schulman, the medical director of the Emory Clinic Sleep Disorders laboratory in Atlanta, Georgia.
If you are probably wondering, what’s taking time away from sleep, Schulman has some answers. “It’s been entertainment, Internet, playing games or TV. People have all sorts of distractions they didn’t have back then (in previous years).”
For the full report on “Americans Are Stressed With the Economy And Many Are Not Sleeping From Financial Stress,” go to CNN News. Plus, there are more sleep articles in BBAC.
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If I were stressed from financial trouble I would be dead by now.
The way I feel about it just roll with the punches and things always work out and that is a fact.