poor sleep
Tossing and turning
Poor sleep is sleep that fails to restore—whether from insufficient duration, frequent waking, or inadequate depth.
The phrase covers everything from occasional restless nights to chronic patterns: Poor sleep is linked to weight gain and depression.
Someone who got poor sleep last night may function poorly today; someone with consistently poor sleep faces compounding health effects.
- insomniaPersistent inability to rest
- restlessUnable to be still
- tossing and turningInability to sleep peacefully
- tossingLight underhand throw
- turningAct of rotating
restless night · wide awake · exhaustion · fatigue · groggy · bleary · wakeful · nightmares · anxiety · stress · caffeine · racing thoughts · dark circles · bags under eyes · yawning · hitting snooze · drowsy · sluggish
- sleep problemsinsomnia, night terrors, hypersomnia, nightmares, restless legs
- health problemsdisease, cancer, diabetes, illness, heart disease
- chronic illnesschronic pain, exhaustion, chronic fatigue, fatigue, malaise
poor sleepdeep sleep
Unconsciousness hard to rouse
restorative sleep · peaceful sleep · eight hours · sleeping like a log · REM sleep
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