How To Know If You Have A Sleep Disorder
Courtesy Erin Fuchs
It turns out that I'm either a "long sleeper" (a person who needs to sleep a lot) or an idopathic hypersominiac (a person who never feels rested despite getting a ton of sleep).
While most people might not have heard of hypersominia, I belong to a large fraternity of tired people. Roughly 40 million Americans are plagued by long-term, chronic sleep disorders every year, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
There's a handy quiz called the "Sleep Disorder Screening Questionnaire" that can help you determine whether you have symptoms of one of the more common sleep disorders like sleep apnea. Here's the questionnaire, which appears on Emory Healthcare's website:
Here's how you score it:
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