“Hi. My name is Maggie and I have insomnia.” There’s got to be a support group for insomniacs somewhere, right? My guess is they meet at 3 a.m.

I just recently had a naughty bout of insomnia where I was only getting an hour or two of sleep a night. My sleep troubles tend to come in fits and starts, however, so the not good stretch has ended and I’m back to sleeping more normally. I do notice that when I’m sleep deprived, my son’s behavior changes. I’m less energetic and perhaps a bit shorter-tempered and he starts to react to that. According to a recent study, adolescents can be greatly affected by a parent’s insomnia. Not only are the adolescents more prone to insomnia themselves, they’re more likely to feel depressed and suicidal.

In the study, nearly 800 adolescents completed a questionnaire. Some of the children had parents with

insomnia, others did not. Those who had a parent with a sleep disorder were more than three times as likely to have a sleep disorder themselves. More alarmingly, 17% of children who had a parent with insomnia reported suicidal ideations — 11.7% more than children who didn’t have a parent with insomnia.

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