What are the most common sleep problems for teenagers?
The most common sleep problems that teenagers have are what we call “sleep phase disruption” or “delayed sleep phase syndrome.” And that is when they naturally actually become tired much later than usual and it’s sort of part of a transition physiology. So teenagers need just over 9 hours of sleep at night but they only become sleepy much later, maybe 11: 11:30. So the problem is they only feel tired late at night and they are IMing and that’s stimulating them so, and they have homework to do which they leave to the last minute. So they probably only go to bed at midnight. And they have to be up at some ridiculous hour like 6:00 or 7:00 to get to school, so they are very sleep deprived during school and the majority of teenagers are sleep deprived period. Now when it comes to the weekend is they go out Friday night at get in late, but they sleep in and they sleep in until 2:00 or 3:00 in the afternoon on Saturday. So now they have kind of caught up on their sleep loss. So come Saturday
