Interrupted Sleep? That's Worse Than No Sleep, Study Says
My husband drives me crazy with sleep issues. Our son (who does get sick a lot) gets sick because he doesn't sleep enough. Sleep can heal your body of everything. Oh, and before I forget, don't you dare wake him up unless the house is burning down (we won't mention the time the fire alarm went off in the middle of the night at the hotel we were staying in and he decided to go to the bathroom first). But that's another story. Now a new study has found that sleep interruptions are worse for our moods than overall sleep reduction, according to newswise.com. In other words, awakening several times throughout the night is more detrimental to people’s positive moods than getting the same shortened amount of sleep without interruption. Who hasn't been there? You didn't get enough sleep and you're grumpy. There's that. But there's also the annoyance of being awakened or jerked from a sound sleep. I no longer use an alarm clock for just th...