Sunday Is 'Worst For A Night's Sleep'

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 1-21-2008 | Bonnie Malkin

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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.

[pray4liberty]

Yep, melatonin works, no side effects. I can't even take Sominex. It's too strong, I will either sleep the next day away, or be a walking zombie.

I don't dare take Ambien. I may never wake up.

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Yep, melatonin works, no side effects. I can't even take Sominex. It's too strong, I will either sleep the next day away, or be a walking zombie. I don't dare take Ambien. I may never wake up.

I tried melatonin for awhile, but it started to make me feel lousy and I had to stop it.

[pray4liberty]

You have to use what works best for you.

Now if I can get husband to stop snoring so loudly, that may help too ;)