It seems that the coronavirus (COVID-19) disturbed the sleep of far too many people around the world , or so Google data claims.
Searches for "insomnia" and "I can not sleep" ("Insomnia" and "can't sleep") reached a very high level in April, according to Google Trends. The data do not reveal the exact causes of the searches, but the schedule coincides with the level of global lockdowns for COVID-19.
Last month, researchers of Harvard warned that the pandemic could affect a person's sleep routine, which in turn could lead to other mental health complications.
"Too much insomnia can make physical and mental health problems worse." he says the Harvard Gazette.
"Think of sleep problems like an infection," said Posner, president of Sleepwell Associates and associate clinical professor at Stanford University. School of Medicine.
Even during normal periods, about 30% to 35% of the population experience acute or short-term insomnia, said Posner, a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and a founding member of the Sleep Behavioral Society.
Insomnia is defined in the fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) as difficulty falling asleep, or waking up too early, and states that this lack of rest is caused by stress or any event that changes the quality of life. He mentions that it is different from the lack of sleep caused by over-loaded preletterthe.
