Tuesday 18/Feb/2025 – 05:40 AM
If you are having difficulty sleeping at night despite avoiding caffeine and reducing screen time, the cause may be deeper than you think .. a recent study published in Development and Psychopathology revealed that sleep disturbances may be related to childhood experience Sleep problems due to their poor ability to organize emotions.
How does childhood trauma affect the quality of sleep?
According to what was published by the Hindistan Times, the study analyzed the data of about 2000 Chinese youth, and found that exposure to physical, emotional, or sexual abuse in childhood is related to various strategies to deal with feelings, which affects the quality of sleep later, and the results indicated that emotional abuse was the most related to disorders Sleep, due to its deep impact on the feeling of security and psychological stability, which makes relaxing at night more difficult.
Emotional organization … the missing link in the treatment of sleep disorders
The study identified two main strategies in organizing emotions and their impact on sleep:
- Knowledge re -evaluation: It is the ability to reformulate negative situations in a more positive way, and people who were subjected to physical and emotional abuse were less able to use this strategy, which increased their influence on negative feelings.
- Expressing repression: It includes repression of feelings instead of dealing with them, it was found that people who have been subjected to sexual abuse are more likely to use this strategy, which increased the levels of internal tension and affected the quality of sleep.
Why are healthy habits not enough to improve sleep?
The study showed that traditional solutions, such as reducing exposure to screens or adhering to a specific sleep protein, may not be sufficient for those who have an emotional history, instead psychological treatment, such as cognitive behavioral therapy or emotional regulation exercises, may be necessary to improve sleep quality and treatment The root causes of the disorder.
The researchers pointed out that dealing with emotional wounds may be the key to a quiet sleep, so if you suffer from persistent insomnia despite following all traditional advice, the cause may be linked to unspecified emotions.
