Cydni Haley

Mrs. Jean Coco

English 1001
15 November 2016
Audience: People who do not understand why sleep deprivation happens.
Preface: I think the roadblock Im facing right is how am I suppose to write this paper?
Am I doing it correctly? I understand I am giving an answer back to question I asked but,
it just seems like I am not doing it correctly. Another problem I am having is with my
magazine sources I am not sure if I cited them correctly. I think all together I am just
struggling with how to begin writing this paper. What I want to focus on mainly in this
conference is how to go about writing this essay and what type of information should be
placed in these paragraphs to tell my audience about my question.
Sleep Deprived?
One word. Sleep. When we do not contain the appropriate amount of hours we
start to see ourselves go down hill from that moment. It had been later discovered that
sleep deprivation has been linked to serious changed in mood states and their
regulations(Short, Louca; 987). When we think of sleep deprivation we think lack of
sleep over a period of time, but that has been proven wrong. It is more than that. I mean
why is it that anxiety and stress causes sleep deprivation?
Stress affects a human in many ways. In our everyday life we see stress present. It
affects us emotionally, physically, and behaviorally. There is such thing as having a good
amount of stress and bad amount of stress. Having a bad amount of stress causing tension
and affects our sleep (Stress and Anxiety Interfere With Sleep). [paraphrase] Anxiety
and Depression Association of America stated, seven out of ten adults have trouble
sleeping when dealing with anxiety (Stress and Anxiety Interfere With Sleep). When it
comes to stress women are significantly more affected than men are. Women tend to

become more sleep deprived (Short, Louca; 987). (summary) Sleep Deprivation is not
just caused by stress it always causes anxiety disorders.
Many patients who suffer from anxiety disorders complain about their sleep by
reporting difficulties in maintaining and initiating it. Having anxiety disorders affects our
REM sleep mode (Papadimitriou, Linkowski 229). (paraphrase) When having this
disorder people tend to have panic attacks during their sleep. During this panic attack
they wake up in a state of panic, where they feel a sense of intense fear or discomfort
accompanied by cognitive and physical symptoms of arousal (Papadimitriou, Linkowski
230). (summary) Since people wake up in a state of panic they fear of going back to sleep
and dealing with it all over again.
People tend to have mood deficits when are sleep deprived which affects a person
tremendously. In a study created by Michelle A. Short, and Mia Louca they investigated
the effects of thirty-six hour of sleep deprivation on different moods (Short, Louca 987).
(summary) In the study Michelle and Mia said all moods worsen followed by one night
without sleep (Short, Louca 987). It is more prevalent in females that they end to have a
greater vulnerability to mood deficits following sleep loss, with greater depressed mood
and anxiety. Having your mood affected by not getting sleep really can cause damage to a
person physiologically. It ends up affecting your cognitive process (Alfarra, Fins, Chayo
and Tartar 1). (summary)
Sleep lost has been found to have mix results on emotion processing. In some
studies it has shown decreased emotionality after sleep loss (Alfarra, Fins, Chayo and
Tartar 1). Most of the cognitive functions affected by sleep loss include psychomotor,

cognitive motor, and working memory. Once these functions are effected we end up
producing negative stimuli ( Alfarra,Fins, Chayo, Tartar 2-5). (summary)

From here I will go into more detail about why it produces negative

stimuli
How it effects our emotions
I would like to also mention how sleep deprivation is really common teens
than adults

Works Cited

Papadimitriou, George N., and Paul Linkowski. "Sleep Disturbance in Anxiety

Disorders." International Review of Psychiatry 17.4 (2005): 229-36. Web.

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Imaginative and Exhilarating Leadership." Florida Journal of Educational
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Alfarra, Ramey, Ana I. Fins, Isaac Chayo, and Jaime L. Tartar. "Changes in Attention to
an Emotional Task after Sleep Deprivation: Neurophysiological and Behavioral
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