Posted on 01/20/2008 6:39:05 PM PST by blam
Sunday is 'worst for a night's sleep'
By Bonnie Malkin
Last Updated: 1:02am GMT 21/01/2008
It may explain that Monday morning feeling - research has found that Sunday is the most sleepless night of the week.
Nearly 60 per cent of employees have their worst night's sleep of the week on Sundays, a survey claims, with restless nights forcing one in four to call in sick on a Monday.
Disrupted sleep has also been blamed for a lack of concentration at work (46 per cent) on Mondays, increased irritability towards bosses (30 per cent) and the odd impromptu nap at the desk (20 per cent).
advertisementThe nationwide study of 3,500 adults, commissioned by the hotel chain Travelodge, found that Friday provided the best night's sleep, with eight in 10 people getting their least disrupted night's sleep at the end of the working week.
Sixteen million adults claim that they suffer regularly from insomnia and most blame concerns over work for keeping them awake.
Britons are said to lose an average of 51 minutes of sleep each night to worrying, a total of one month's worth of sleep every year.
Residents of Edinburgh are the biggest victims of work-related insomnia, with 47 per cent struggling to doze off every night, whereas workers in Inverness, Norwich and Brighton get the best night's sleep.
Boycott Sunday.
Who cannot relate to this?
Benneh Drill.
Works great.
So how much did it cost to find out that most people hate their jobs and dread going back on Monay morning? I could have told them this 35 years ago.
We needed a study to tell us this?
That would be bad. But I’d sleep in monday mornings.
Sunday’s great. It’s Monday that needs to be boycotted. Man, The Telegraph is on a roll today.
Of course. You stay up later Saturday night and get up later Sunday morning. Then you try to go to sleep earlier Sunday night and it doesn’t work. This has been known for many years.
I recall a similar study some years ago, finding that a high percentage of people report getting the blues on Sunday nights. Science marches on.
“Two words to respond to this:
Benneh Drill.
Works great.”
Ambien works better.
Melatonin.
So glad I’m now retired and Sundays and Mondays mean nothing to me. Prior to retiring, Sunday night sleep was rotten, and Monday was the worst day to get through. Now I sleep like a baby on a Sunday night. Of course the tradeoff is now I’m getting older, so you start getting insomnia because of age. Can’t win for losing.
Apparently in circles.
No, benedryl makes me jumpy. I just tough it out....get up and read or watch TV. I found that praying helps, sometimes.
I don’t mind Mondays, it’s HUMP day that I hate — Wednesdays are the worst.
***Who cannot relate to this?***
Wy you bunch of wimmpies. I would love to work a day shift 8 hour day.
I have been working rotating shifts for thirty years! Eight hour days for ten days straight, then an evenings and midnight shifts. Killers!
Now they have me on a 12 hour rotating shift and am lucky if I get four hours of sleep (working days) a night! Sometimes less! We all loose track of what day it is and what shift we are to work.
When we finally get our days off we spend the first three trying to get caught up on sleep.
I think the ancients called it “a hangover.”
A melatonin me-too.
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