{"id":4913,"date":"2022-10-09T07:30:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T07:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quinessence.com\/blog\/?p=4913"},"modified":"2022-10-09T09:06:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T09:06:09","slug":"how-to-sleep-soundly-financial-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quinessence.com\/blog\/how-to-sleep-soundly-financial-crisis","title":{"rendered":"How To Sleep Soundly During The Financial Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"How<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to remember a time when financial stress, fear and uncertainty filled the air as much as it does right now, and many people are losing sleep worrying about paying their household bills.<\/p>\n

Even during the coronavirus pandemic some form of financial support was promised for the majority of people to help them through the endless lockdowns until normality returned. Not so this time, and things are already spiralling out of control for the majority who already feel like they’re trapped in a financial nightmare, unable to sleep.<\/p>\n

Too many bills – not enough sleep<\/h2>\n

The UK governments efforts to help by limiting the cost of household energy bills was totally negated by the catastrophic consequences of their \u2018mini-budget\u2019 dramatically pushing up interest rates. Thanks to this, the \u2018average\u2019 family with a mortgage is now infinitely worse off financially than they were ever going to be due to the soaring cost of energy.<\/p>\n

A palpable sense of anxiety has taken grip of the nation and the gloomy 24 hour news cycle about an impending world recession hardly helps ease everyone\u2019s worries. The inability to keep warm, put food on the table, pay the mortgage and meet a pile of other financial commitments is now keeping millions of people awake at night worrying. And this is not good for your health.<\/p>\n

Cycle of anxiety<\/h2>\n

Most of us experience the occasional night of sleeplessness without any severe consequences. It is when the occasional sleepless night becomes a pattern of several nights in a row that you know you have a sleeping problem. The fear of not being able to make ends meet has caused the number of people suffering from sleeplessness to rise sharply, so if you are experiencing changes to your usual sleeping pattern you are certainly not alone.<\/p>\n

Feelings of anxiety prevent you from falling asleep as quickly as usual, and often you will awaken again after a short period of fitful sleep. Intense dreams and nightmares about your financial fears can cause you wake up in a state of panic, and the whole cycle starts again. Sleep disturbances like this interfere with physical, mental, and emotional functioning.<\/p>\n

Sleep loss can affect your overall daily performance and can have a profound effect on your health, and if it continues for a long period of time it can cause problems with your relationships and your professional life. It can become an endless cycle of worry and anxieties as you continue to lose sleep every night.<\/p>\n

It can help to understand the stages of sleeplessness, and these can be put into three main categories:<\/p>\n