Anxiety and sleep

Anxiety is a feeling of unease, worry or fear. This is general symptoms of anxiety. Anxiety can have great impact on one’s daily life. For example, anxiety can disturb sleep. We know that adult needs 8 hours sleep every night for the body and mind to rest and recharge. If you cannot sleep, it affects your health mentally and physically. With anxiety the mind doesn’t switch off, it keeps you awake, and it is difficult for you to get into sleep. If you do fall asleep, the mind is still wandering around and wake you up at might or wake you up early in the morning. Due to lack of sleep, you would feel tired, irritated, sluggish next day.

Acupuncture can help reduce anxiety and make you sleep better. Acupuncture will reduce the brain activity and promote relaxation to calm down the brain. Acupuncture can regulate levels of neurotransmitters (or their modulators) and hormones such as serotonin, noradrenaline, dopamine, GABA, neuropeptide Y and ACTH to relax the brain. Acupuncture produces endogenous opioids that affect the autonomic nervous system. Stress activates the sympathetic nervous system, while acupuncture can activate the opposing parasympathetic nervous system, which initiates the relaxation response. Acupuncture reduce stress and inflammation that associated with anxiety.

References

https://www.acupuncture.org.uk/a-to-z-of-conditions/a-to-z-of-conditions/anxiety.html