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It comes as no surprise that insomniacs score higher on depression and anxiety tests than good sleepers do. After all, lack of sleep can drive you somewhat crazy, right?<\/p>\nIt comes as no surprise that insomniacs score higher on depression and anxiety tests than good sleepers do. After all, lack of sleep can drive you somewhat crazy, right?<\/p>\n
But a study in the latest edition of the journal Comprehensive Psychiatry<\/em> suggests that it is much more than just mood disorders that insomniacs should worry about.<\/p>\n In fact, more than half of all insomniacs suffer a hidden but very destructive disorder.<\/p>\n Researchers decided to find out whether insomniacs were more likely to suffer from personality disorders than psychotherapy patients were.<\/p>\n For subjects, they recruited 171 insomnia patients and 171 psychotherapy patients who were presented to their clinic.<\/p>\n They matched them on age and gender and gave them the standard diagnostic questionnaire to identify the personality disorders from which they suffered, if any.<\/p>\n Interestingly, 52% of insomniacs scored positively for at least one personality disorder, which was substantially higher than the findings in the psychotherapy group.<\/p>\n While looking at specific personality disorders, insomniacs were most likely to suffer from a narcissistic personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, and non-specific personality disorders.<\/p>\n Given these findings, the authors of this study recommended that insomnia patients be screened for personality disorders, as there could be a possibility that their sleep disorder stems from these psychological problems.<\/p>\n However, there is an upside, which would be that insomnia which is resilient to standard treatments could become treatable by treating the personality disorders from which they result from.<\/p>\n But the scientists didn\u2019t comment on the other side, such as once insomnia patients could be assisted to sleep well, would their personality disorder also be healed as well?<\/p>\n