Treatments of acute insomnia.

There are several treatment options for acute insomnia. There are pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments for insomnia. Pharmacological therapy is the one, which consumes medicine and specific drugs to cure the insomnia. Life Extension Foundation (2015, 5) presents conventional pharmacological treatments such as over the-counter medication, antidepressants, benzodiazepines and non-benzodiazepines. One of the accepted over-the-counter drugs of sleep medications is antihistamines that blocks the receptors which response to histamine. This histamine causes sedation, which is thoroughly useful only for acute type of insomnia (Life Extension Foundation 2015, 5). From early 1990s, benzodiazepines and non-benzodiazepines have been used to cure the insomnia, because these medications stimulates to reduce the time that needs to fall asleep. Even if this pharmacological way of treatment is more suitable for acute insomnia and it works easier and quicker than non-pharmacological type, nevertheless, periodic usage of such strong medications can bring up serious health consequences like liver damages, tension headaches or blood circulation issues.

There are four types of non-pharmacological therapy suggested by researchers from University of Pennsylvania Findley and Perlis (2014, 73-76) such as Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), which help to eliminate the worries and interruptions of sleep; Sleep Restriction Therapy controls the total amount of sleep time per day; Stimulus Control Therapy that advises to use bed only for sleep and Sleep Hygiene promotes to maintain good sleep habits. Any type of these therapies can cure the acute insomnia using different methods. Behavioral interventions presents relaxation, sleep restriction, stimulus control and cognitive therapies, which cure all types of insomnia, including the short-term one. Scientists Kamel and Gammack (2006, 466) provide statistics on experiment done on comparison of CBT with temazepam and placebo medications. Results show that the reduction in acute insomnia by CBT is higher (55%) than by medications (46.5%).

Non-pharmacological therapies, including CBT is most effective treatment for acute insomnia. Every person should take care of sleep hygiene and avoid any disturbance or stress that make it hard to sleep.

Conclusion

To conclude, acute insomnia is one of the most pervasive types of sleep disturbance, which provides a host of completely negative impacts on entire society. Short-term insomnia damages a psychological and physical functioning across medical, social, physical and emotional patterns. Insomniacs are more likely to have car accidents, poor job performance and low quality of life. Various risk factors promoting the high amount of acute insomnia include female gender, older age, comorbid medical disorder and psychiatric problems. Environmental factors including work, family and social life, and medical factors as illnesses, menopause, pregnancy and aging are the considerable implications of acute insomnia. Women and older people are more likely to suffer from short-term insomnia, because of health related and environmental problems. Overall, mild insomnia continuing to develop among people of all ages, and the whole society deteriorates from its cause-effects on human health and lifestyle. Nevertheless, there are provided impressive ways for treatment that suggest to keep controlling the sleep hygiene and averting external factors that disrupt normal sleep process. It can be concluded that non-pharmacological therapies are the most effective treatment for acute insomnia.