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You Slept Badly Last Night; Now I’m In Trouble – The Social and Familial Impact of Sleep Deprivation

Posted on | January 13, 2014 | No Comments

You Slept Badly Last Night; Now I’m In Trouble The Social and Familial Impact of Sleep Deprivation Ask the most difficult person in your office how well they slept last night, this week, or what their patterns of sleep have been over a lifetime. Go ahead, it sounds as though you’re really concerned about them. They might like you better and eat you last. Besides building a better relationship with this daytime ogre, it might open you both up to the possibility that lack of sleep or disturbed sleep can cause a ripple effect that negatively changes our working environment. sleeping460 Google Images, 2014 Maria Konnikova’s, Good Night, Sleep Clean, in the New York Times and Ian Parker’s, The Big Sleep, in last month’s New Yorker, provide interesting information on both the theoretical necessity of sleep and Merck’s focus on providing beneficial rest when we need it most. Scientists are honing in on sleep’s place in our lives and how we can achieve it safely. In my work within male and female residential facilities for a drug and alcohol recovery organization, I witnessed and studied first hand the effects of a bad nights sleep. Given that our clients continued to spend the day together after sharing large comfortable dorm style sleeping arrangements, and then joined various discussion groups; lack of sleep, sleep medications, and the resulting daytime behaviors were common talk fare. And discussions were often negative and blame filled. Poor sleep resulted in misplaced anger, dysphoria, an inability to function, and a very much-reduced ability to create light social alliances. Even when my therapy clients, and corporate client teams power through on job functions, the all-important social alliances were cut off or jettisoned to maintain degraded attention resources. We have to prioritize our energy usage and daily requirements. Socializing requires as much energy as work and with reduced energy, people do not share, support, or engage at the same level. We know in our own families that we all avoid the grouch, and “Daddy’s tired” are reasons to look elsewhere for attention. The long-term sleep deprivation resulting in work place stress means we have less for those we love once we are back home. I’ll continue this report with information on individual sleep cycle interviews and the effects of medications on those who try to maintain the normal day. Shawn Nichols Shawnnichols.com
Category: Child and Family, Relationships, Working Environment Concerns
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