Let Your Body Rest
While you might've been used to pulling all-nighters playing games with friends or studying for tests in high school and college, it's not a good idea to do it often. Getting enough sleep every night is crucial for your health in many different ways. Here are just five ways your body is trying to tell you to fix your sleep routine.
1. Feeling Fatigue
If you wake up in the morning and your body feels heavy as if you never slept to begin with, you clearly didn't get that good night's rest you were looking for. Feelings of exhaustion right in the morning are a quick and easy way to tell if your body got enough sleep that it needs.
2. Feeling Irritable
When you don't get enough sleep, you likely wake up on the wrong side of the bed every morning. Even with your morning coffee, you're probably feeling grumpy and incredibly irritable for no reason. That tiredness is going to go straight to your head and make you feel terrible throughout the day.
3. Having Mood Swings
One minute you're feeling tired and frustrated, the next you're feeling a bit loopy and spacing out. If you're going through mood swings but aren't sure why, it might be because you're not getting enough sleep. Your brain is likely trying extra hard to keep up, which is causing you to quickly rotate through emotions without wanting it.
4. Getting Headaches
Whether it's because your eyes feel strained or your brain feels fuzzy and lightheaded, getting headaches is a common symptom of not getting enough sleep. Your body needs to proper rest to heal and prepare itself for the next day, so if you're unable to provide it with that, you're going to feel the consequences.
5. Weakened Immune System
Getting sick more easily and often than normal? Your immune system becomes weakened when you don't give your body the time it needs to heal and rest. Sometimes, the best way to get over a cold and prevent another one is by fixing your sleep schedule.
