Combating tiredness

How tiredness affects you

Quite apart from making you moody and irritable, being tired affects your mind and body very quickly. Just five days of getting less sleep than you should can have a similar effect to being slightly drunk, and if you go out drinking when you're suffering from sleep deprivation beware, because just three drinks when you're in that kind of state can have the same effect as six would do normally.1

Although being tired isn't likely to affect you badly straight away, and there's little evidence that lack of sleep causes any immediate physiological damage to the body, it definitely affects how you feel and the way your brain works, which is a problem when you're trying to learn and retain information that will help you pass exams.2

Not getting enough sleep has an effect on your cognitive ability - the ability to think and use your brain.2

Lack of sleep leads to problems coping with mental tasks, slows down your ability to carry out mental arithmetic and logical reasoning. You'll also find that if you're tired, it affects your memory. The good news is that paying attention and concentrating on a task seems to boost a tired brain. But if you're carrying out complex assignments or tasks, you could find that your ability to think laterally has evaporated.2

So what can you do about it? >

References:

  1. The National Sleep Research Project “40 amazing facts about sleep” http://www.abc.net.au/science/sleep/facts.htm - Date viewed Dec 09
  2. BBC Health - Ask the Doctor: “How does lack of sleep affect you?” http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/ask_the_doctor/sleepdeprivation.shtml Date viewed Dec 09

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