1. Acute Insomnia: Short-term insomnia lasting less than 3 months, often triggered by stress, travel, or illness.

2. Chronic Insomnia: Long-term insomnia lasting 3 months or more, often associated with underlying medical or mental health conditions.

3. Comorbid Insomnia: Insomnia occurring alongside other medical or mental health conditions, such as depression, anxiety, or chronic pain.

4. Onset Insomnia: Insomnia that begins suddenly, often in response to a specific event or stressor.

5. Maintenance Insomnia: Sleeplessness that persists over time, often due to underlying factors such as poor sleep habits or environmental factors.

1. Stress and Anxiety: Stress, anxiety, and other mental health conditions can contribute.

2. Poor Sleep Habits: Irregular sleep schedules, caffeine, nicotine, and electronic screen use before bedtime can disrupt sleep.

3. Medical Conditions: Chronic pain, sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome, and other medical conditions can increase the risk.

4. Medications: Certain medications, such as those used to treat depression, ADHD, and high blood pressure, can interfere with sleep.

5. Lifestyle Factors: Work schedule, travel, and environmental factors (e.g., noise, light) can contribute.

1. Aconite – Restlessness , excitement , anguish , fear of death , especially useful after chill , shock , fright , operation, any illness that comes in night , aconite will give peace and sleep

2. Chamomilla – Sleepy but cannot sleep , restless due to pain , so violent that he cannot keep still . As soon as bed time comes , is wide awake especially at early night

3. Calcarea carb – Sleepless from many thoughts crowding , the same disagreeable idea always rouses the sick as often as they fall into a light sleep

4. Coffea – Sleeplessness from sudden emotions , pleasant surprise , exciting or bad news . Unusual activity of mind and body , full of ideas.

5. Pulsatilla – Sleepless from orgasm of blood , after late supper or eating too much , from ideas crowding in mind.

Weeping  because she could not go to sleep. Sleeps with arms overhead.

6. Nux vomica – Insomnia after mental strain , abuse of coffee , wine , alcohol, opium or tobbaco , from excessively study at night. Sleepy in the evening , hours before bedtime , awakes at 3 – 4 am , ideas crowds in mind then falls into a dreamy sleep at daybreak from which he is hard to arouse.

7. Sulphur – Irrestibly drowsy by day , wakeful at night. Sleepy in evening , but nights full of unrest. Soles burn at night , puts feet out. Gets his best and soundest sleep later in morning.

8. Cocculus – Worn out and exhausted , and when the time has come for sleep cannot sleep . Sleeplessness from vexation , anxiety , grief. Extreme irritability of nervous system.

9. Arsenic album – Sleeplessness with restlessness and moaning . Attacks of anxiety drive him out of bed. Despair of life , fear of death . Tossing worse after midnight.

10. Lachesis – Afraid to go to sleep, or the mother afraid to let the child sleep. As soon as he goes to sleep , just on the verge of it he wakes catching for breath. SLEEPS INTO AGGRAVATION . Could not sleep on account of strangulation.

Worked By – DR. NAZIA ANSARI (BHMS)