Sleep and mental health are seriously connected. Basically, if you didn’t get enough sleep last night, then take the bus to school so you don’t crash your mom’s car and be warned, your performance in math class is gonna suck. Specifically, people who lack sleep have trouble with auditory and visuo-spatial attention, performing addition and subtraction tasks, and their reaction times are poor. Sleep deprivation screws with your memory and concentration, too. When you don’t get enough sleep, your cytokine pr oduction decreases, putting you at risk of getting sick more easily. Our immune systems help us to fight off infection, inflammation and disease by releasing proteins called cytokines. Lack of sleep messes up your immune system. Research has shown that teens with low stress sleep more hours per night than teens with high stress (7.8 vs. Sleep decreases stress and increases resiliency. At your age, research indicates that sleep is more important than when you were 10 years old, because your brain is going through another big developmental stage that’s supported by proper rest. ![]() Sleep is as vital to your well-being as air, water and food. This is the reason that some smart adults are lobbying for a later start time for high schoolers. You’re likely getting around seven hours MAX and so, you’re putting yourself at risk for lots of problems with your immune system, mental health, concentration, memory and, yes, your complexion. That’s only an issue because you require about eight to 10 hours of sleep to function at your best, and most of you are waking up at 6 am on school days, after staying up late working on class projects, enjoying extracurriculars or perhaps pulling an evening shift at a part-time job. In adolescence, it’s natural to have a hard time falling asleep before 11 pm. I’m sure you’ve noticed that you get tired much later than you did a few years ago. It’s hard to manage your sleep when your biological sleep patterns have shifted, but your school bell still rings super early. I can cut you some slack, knowing that many of your night-owl-like ways have to do with your changing body and circadian rhythms. Plus, I was once a sleep-deprived teenager, myself. Not only do I have one of you at home, but I spend all day every day with teens just like you. Look, you don’t have to explain yourself to me. Sleep is everything-but you don’t realize it.
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