The amount of sleep a person needs in a day varies depending on the age and other lifestyle and health factors. The quality of sleep also matters to a large extent. Lying in bed and tossing and turning will still leave you groggy and listless whereas, at times a catnap can refresh you totally.
Insomnia is a condition where an individual is unable to sleep peacefully for more than a couple of minutes at a time.
The general perception is that Insomnia can be cured by sedatives, a substance that induces sleep. It is also believed that sedatives cause an individual to relax and therefore, sleep peacefully.
But this is far from the actual truth. Sleep induced by sedatives is neither a cure nor a permanent remedy. You may actually feel relaxed and sleep for some time but sedatives are addictive. Taking sedatives regularly can become such a habit that the dependency increases to such an extent that sleeping with one becomes impossible.
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