Psychiatric and sleep problems might be troublesome to tease aside, Sam A. Kashani, MD, shared with Psychiatric Occasions.
“The connection between sleep and psychiatric problems could be very advanced and fairly intensive. It goes past simply pining a sleep troublesome to an individual’s nervousness or despair,” mentioned Kashani.
Based on a survey accomplished by the American Academy of Sleep Medication, 12% of People have been identified with persistent insomnia.1 Total, it’s estimated that insomnia impacts 25 million people in the USA.2 This widespread sleep problem might be extraordinarily troublesome to distinguish as a pure sleep drawback vs sequelae of a psychiatric dysfunction vs medicine adversarial impact. For instance, insomnia is seen in additional than 90% of sufferers with medical despair, and is widespread within the prodromal part of psychosis.2
Kashani, an professional in sleep medication and the president of the California Sleep Society, acknowledges this problem. “We now have problem in teasing aside what’s the psychiatric part of the issue vs what’s simply the pure sleep part of the issue. Teasing aside that rooster from the egg might be very, very troublesome. It’s most likely one our greatest diagnostic challenges in sleep medication.”
Dr Kashani is a board-certified sleep medication doctor who practices in Santa Monica, Porter Ranch, and Santa Clarita. He’s at present president of the California Sleep Society and is an assistant medical professor of drugs on the David Geffen Faculty of Medication at UCLA.
References
1. AASM Sleep Prioritization Survey: Continual Insomnia. American Academy of Sleep Medication. 2024. Accessed Might 6, 2025. https://aasm.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/sleep-prioritization-survey-2024-chronic-insomnia.pdf
2. Khurshid KA. Comorbid insomnia and psychiatric problems. Innov Clin Neurosci. 2018;15(3-4):28–32.
