Insomnia and Hypersomnia
Hypersomnia is a neurological condition that is manifested through extreme sleepiness during the daytime. A person diagnosed with hypersomnia experiences difficulty staying awake while doing daily tasks. It may happen unintentionally and at any time of the day. If not treated immediately, this condition might cause more problems at school or work. For example, working inside the office and uncontrollably falling asleep when the employer is around; this may risk losing the job, or if it is, a student could be punished by the teacher for not understanding the lesson.
On the contrary, insomnia is a disorder whereby a person finds it hard to fall asleep (or falls asleep but wakes up immediately and cannot get back to sleep again) even if the body is too tired. There are multiple reasons for both insomnia and hypersomnia: mental disorders, sleep deprivation that becomes severe, physical abuse, drug effects (medication), and sometimes abusive use of harmful drugs, substances, and toxic chemicals inside the body. When both of these persist, the mental state pays for the consequences like losing focus on tasks, vertigo, severe memory loss, low level of alertness and reaction time, and proper judgment and perception.
