This is my first ever writing in a wellness blog. I have been going through mental health issues for many years. I am still struggling with insomnia or sleep deprivation. Some of you may have probably similar experiences and felt that uneasiness for long. For example, you are lying awake at night, watching the minutes and hours tick by. The harder you try to fall asleep, the more futile it is. That is the conundrum of sleep problems. Unfortunately, it is something many people grapple with on a nightly basis.

It is interesting to know how much sleep actually one needs in one’s daily life. According to Hirshkowitz et al. (2015), an expert panel from the National Sleep Foundation of the United States, the appropriate sleep duration for newborns is between 14 and 17 hours, infants between 12 and 15 hours, toddlers between 11 and 14 hours, preschoolers between 10 and 13 hours, school-aged children between 9 and 11 hours, teenagers 8 to 10 hours, while 7 to 9 hours for young adults and adults, and 7 to 8 hours of sleep for older adults. Of course, different people have different needs. Some people naturally need less sleep or more sleep. However, for adults, consistently sleeping fewer than six hours a night or consistently sleeping for ten or more hours a night can have health risks or may be a sign of another health problem.