失眠這個問題有多嚴重？它和熬夜可不一樣！

What It Means To Have Insomnia, Because It Isn’t Just ‘Staying Up Late Sometimes’
失眠意味着什麼，因爲它不等同於偶爾的熬夜

Insomnia is excruciatingly tiring to deal with. It incapacitates you by making you unable to deal with changes — it took me 2 days to shift my schedule around so that I could have enough time last night to prepare for deep sleep. But all it took was a text message to send my mental state into anxiety, worry, depression, all at once. I laid in bed wide awake for 5 hours and towards the end, thought about how productive I could have been, if I hadn’t spent all this time lying on the bed.
失眠是令人痛苦的。它使你失去處理變化的能力——我花了2天時間改變我的日程安排，才讓我昨晚可以有足夠的時間爲深睡做準備。但只要來一條短信，就能突然使我的精神焦慮，感到擔心和抑鬱。我躺在牀上一直清醒了5個小時，想着如果我沒有把所有的時間都躺在牀上，我會有多大的效率。

When you don’t get enough sleep, you are never fully present in the moment. Tiredness looms over your whole presence. Productiveness decreases. You turn up late, or you miss meetings in the morning because that’s the time when you start to fall asleep.
當你得不到足夠的睡眠時，你就完全無法把注意力集中到當下。疲倦將籠罩着你的整個身軀，工作效率會下降，你會遲到。或者你可能錯過早上的會議，因爲那時你開始打瞌睡了。

You feel hopeless, worthless, and cancel on anything that makes you anxious。
你會感到絕望、毫無價值，然後取消任何讓你焦慮的事情。

The emotional detriments of insomnia is an endless cycle of guilt, tiredness and hopelessness.
失眠的危害是你不斷重複地感到內疚、疲倦和絕望。

Wanting to sleep is seen as lazy. Not sleeping earlier is seen as a mismanagement of time.
想睡覺被認爲是懶惰。 不早點睡覺被認爲是時間管理不善。

They give advice on scented candles, and classical music, not knowing that you’ve tried even alcohol in desperation. You thank them for their good will, while they walk away wondering why you’re too stubborn to take their advice. They shake their heads at you.
人們會建議你試試香薰蠟燭，但他們不知道你已經絕望到試圖用酒精來解決問題了。你感謝他們的好意，而他們走開時，卻想知道你爲什麼如此頑固不接受他們的建議，然後他們對你搖搖頭。

But insomnia is not just insomnia. Insomnia is often a symptom of something larger that should be solved. Insomnia is a symptom that aggravates the already aggravated situation.
但失眠不僅僅是失眠。失眠往往是一個亟待解決的更大症狀。失眠會加重已經不好的情況。

“ Are you going to sleep soon? “
“你很快就要睡了嗎？“

“ I try.”
“我想，但估計辦不到。”