- Transient insomnia: Transient insomnia lasts from one night
to a few weeks. Most people suffer occasionally from transient insomnia due to
different factors in their lives, such as jetlag or short-term anxiety. If
transient insomnia continues to occur more frequently, but still not nightly,
the insomnia is classified as intermittent.
- Acute
insomnia: Acute insomnia is the inability to consistently sleep without
interruption for a period of three weeks to six months. Stress or psychological
problems such as anxiety are the most common trigger for short-term or acute
insomnia.
- Chronic
insomnia: Chronic insomnia is long-term, and persists almost nightly for more
than one month.
- Fatal
familial insomnia: Fatal familial insomnia, or FFI, is a very rare inherited
disease of the brain. The dominant gene responsible for FFI has been found in
just 28 families worldwide. If only one parent has the gene, the offspring have
a 50% chance of inheriting it and developing the disease. The disease's
progression into complete sleeplessness is untreatable, and ultimately fatal.
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