Sleep Deprivation Speech

Do you ever feel really tired? Do you feel sad or depressed? Do you feel overwhelmed or angry at someone or even everything? Have you experienced an urge to eat more food? If you answered yes to any one of these questions you may be suffering from severe Sleep Deprivation. This is not good at all!

You need sleep! While you sleep very important body functions and brain activity occur. Skipping or not acquiring enough sleep can be deadly. Your appearance may begin to suffer. You may feel moody. You may start to perform poorly.

There are multiple consequences associated with Sleep Deprivation. It limits your ability to learn, listen, concentrate, and solve problems. You may begin to forget important things; such as phone numbers, homework, upcoming tests, where you need to be, and lots of other important things. It causes more acne breakouts. You may experience aggressive or inappropriate behaviors when it’s not intended. You will begin to eat more. You will crave food that is unhealthy for you. This may result in obesity. The use of caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, and energy drinks may increase. This actually worsens your sleep stability. Illnesses may also begin to appear.

Do you think you get enough sleep? If you said yes, you may need to think again. Studies show that teens need about eight to ten hours of sleep. Only fifteen percent of teens have reported sleeping an average of eight and a half hours on school nights. Staying up late and sleeping in late on weekends affects your biological clock ( which is your bodies way of telling us we need sleep or when we are tired) and your sleep quality. During puberty, your biological clocks change. We are lucky to receive six hours of sleep because, between schoolwork, families, friends, sports, clubs, or dance classes we don’t have time to sleep.

Sleep Deprivation causes sleep disorders such as; Narcolepsy, Sleep Insomnia, Restless Leg Syndrome, and Sleep Apnea. Narcolepsy is when you have an extreme tendency to fall asleep in a relaxing setting. Sleep Insomnia is habitual sleeplessness and it is when you have an inability to sleep and stay asleep. Restless Leg Syndrome is a disorder where you inhabit a twitching sensation in your leg muscles. Sleep Apnea is when you have one or more pauses in breathing while you sleep. Restless Leg Syndrome is not fatal. Narcolepsy can be fatal if you fall asleep at the wrong time. The other two are extremely fatal.

You may become unhappy or depressed. You may begin to feel hopeless about the future. You can become nervous and tense. You may also begin to worry about things that make no sense at all.

Depression can be considered a cause or an effect of Sleep Deprivation. You could get serious anxiety and begin thinking about suicide. Exercise can release endorphins that