A Small History Of Insomnia So Anyone Will Realize What This Is About

Many of you probably heard of a problem named insomnia, that appears to make it’s presence in the life of many of us. This term describes the not being able to sleep mood because of numerous causes among which are stress, sleep diseases, and others. The history of insomnia officially began in 1623 when the word was added in the dictionary, and it was composed of the word in meaning not and somnus meaning sleep. So, like you would expect it, even back then insomnia had a simple meaning: no sleep.

Some of you are thinking that insomnia is a new word, portraying a sort of new problem that we have, but this is not the correct answer. Like we’ve discussed earlier, the history of insomnia starts officially, since 1623, but off records, no one knows for sure since when people had for the first time nights when they were not able to sleep. Insomnia could be a very, very old problem of humankind, and not a new one, as some people say. It could be that even our great-great-etc ancestors had this issue because they were forced to get a shelter, find food and look for predators, and this might interrup their sleep.

But do not think that insomnia has only been active in the life of normal people, because because is not true. There are lots of people, which are very known people, people in our history, that that had trouble sleeping. You will actually be quite amazed by all the names that are present on the list of famous people that suffered from insomnia. The list is big but we’ll only remind some of the famous people that fought with insomnia.

Among the people that are known to have suffered from sleeping disorders, are people like Winston Churchill, Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin etc. Winston Churchill couldn’t sleep if he was in a room that had only one bed, and he always had to have two beds in his room, so if he couldn’t sleep in one of them, then he would just sleep in the next bed. Isaac Newton was not able to sleep because he suffered from depression which stopped him from falling asleep easily. Benjamin Franklin required sheets that had low temperature to sleep on, and if not he just couldn’t sleep at all.

In the end, insomnia exists for some time in the lives of common people and also famous ones. No one knows exactly when this disorder appeared exactly, but we know this for sure: insomnia exists from the early stages of mankind and it does not seem that we can put an end to it too soon. So, there’s no truth beneath common beliefs that state that insomnia is a modern problem for all people, because it has been active for at least 400 years.