The Economy of Sleep Debt? Or is there?

Since the time I started my freelancing job, I've been way behind 3-5 hours sleep everyday. Lucky me that I still manage to perform well in the company I work for. While I enjoy writing endlessly and sit in front of my computer the whole, I still sense some thing's not right.

Despite the pressing needs to earn a living, getting trapped with any kind of debt fears me the most. But yes, I don't think I've known a man who's not indebted to something, more so, with the depressing economic conditions in the country these days.

Why, there are hundreds of credit card agents left and right offering you great deals of their credit card subscriptions. Banking industry also paved its way to the credit/debit world whereby skyrocketing amount of car, housing, salary and OFW loans are no longer limited to those lending companies anymore.

Sleep deprivation, or insomnia as we know it, my most crucial debt I had. Medical reports and reviews from the WebMD online publication states that adults like me need to have at least 7-8 hours of night rest. Although 5 hours is fair enough, I am facing the consequences of loosing my body's need on the amount of sleep everyday.

Oh it's not a new practice for me and so do you, I believe so. I'm one of those hundreds of thousands people who gain self-fulfillment out of working hard everyday, a true workaholic. I personally most willing to compromise time to meet my caprices. Isn't this a bad habit? Oh yeah, I myself am struggling to get over my poor sleeping habit, especially that of my workaholic attitude.

Most often than not, I exhaust myself to death everyday for me to feel sleepy during night time. Without this struggle, expect that I'm wide awake to the wee hours of the morning while everybody in the house are snoring and are dreaming already. What annoys me the most is that I could hear the orchestra sound of my house mates' snores along with the eternal tipping of my keyboard. Good riddance!

I was pushed to write this article in my blog just to yank those people who are like me. Listed below are the major results you and I should expect if we continue to deprive ourselves with enough sleep hours:

* memory loss
* failure and weakening of our immune system
* usual feelings of depression
* WebMD states "increase in perception of pain"
* failures of reflexes

Like you, I know it's not yet too late to start revive myself from this debt. As you all know, debt isn't the end of everything. There's always a way out of any kind of debt there is and sleep debt is just one of those debts you and I can escape. But in order for me to succeed, I needed to make the appropriate adjustments in my schedule. That change starts today and I hope you too can make the adjustments you need. Here's my list of what-to-dos against sleep debt:

1.Start my day early and retire early
2.Finish all my work before 10PM knocks off
3.Unclog our room (I will need to transfer my desktop to the other room so I won't be tempted to access my emails at home. I also need to move my books to the other room and free our room with clutters and improve the space)

I'm sure you'd agree that the least thing you expect at the latter part of your life is to forget all your loved ones because you have abused yourself and failed to support your body's refreshing moments while sleeping. Yes, sleeping allows our body to freshen up and revive the lost energy for the whole day. So it means sleep deprivation is selfish habit of pushing our body to work more without compensation.

Isn't that slavery in its true sense? I'd dare myself to escape, would you do the same? If you're interested to know more about insomnia or sleep deprivation, what causes it and the numbers of FAQs, click here.

Why not share your thoughts on how you overcome sleep debt and what are you doing so far to eliminate such bad habit? Your ideas are important, share practical tips and save a single brain neuron. **I borrowed this photo from Acclaimed Images Photography**