In the first days of the war, 22-year-old Sofia Tsarenko would drink to rest with friends in Ukraine. He soon found that his anxiety would not fall asleep without a glass wine.
As the war was dragged, Ms. Tsarenko worsened anxiety and became more annoyed. The wine help stopped. Only when he tried sleeping pills and antidepressants, he was able to get a little comfort.
“I felt the angels to sleep me,” said Mrs. Tsarenko living in East Dnipro.
Russia’s full-scale occupation of Ukraine killed thousands of people and injured tens of thousands. However, the payment is not only physical: the three-year war has suffered great psychological damage. Sleep deprivation has become a national health crisis in Ukraine, marketers and psychologists, which caused nearby attacks as a primary driver, as a primary driver.
Every night in cities and cities in the country, Ukrainians are awake in the field, listen and sing the sounds of Russian drones as lawns in heaven and then for explosions. Drone holidays just strongly intensified According to Ukrainian officials, the mediator in the United States began peace talks. And as in Russia seems to target increasingly increasing urban areas A large and deadly strike in Kiev Thursday causes civilians to concern and sleepless nights.
According to experts, chronic sleep deprivation has a deep impact on the psychological welfare. Sometimes the “sleep debt” is called “sleep debt”, depression and other heavy mental health problems can cause anxiety and irritation.
The World Health Organization said in February About half of Ukraine stated that there was a mental health concern. Sale of antidepressants in Ukraine in Ukraine increased by 46 percent Analysis of its trade Liki24.com with a large drug distributor across the country.
It is impossible to know that it is impossible to know that Ukrainians have a large number of reasons to worry, the unknown, how and when the war and when the war will end on the front. However, sleep deprivation only adds to the number of experts in Ukraine and the number of doctors.
Dr. Davyd Shcherbyna, a psychiatrist and co-founder of the chain of medical clinics in Kiev, said that half of his patients are in bed and many people who want to help.
“The first thing a person lost under stress,” he said, especially difficulty in the treatment of mothers. Resisting some drugs, he said they were not afraid of fearing fear that he would not wake up for air attacks and therefore said they did not take refuge in the attack.
These air raids have a negative impact on alarms, intellectual health, because Sofia Vlokh, Lviv National Medical University violates the natural sleep cycle according to a psychiatrist and researcher.
The World Health Organization said in February About half of Ukraine stated that there was a mental health concern.
“Many Ukrainians suffer,” said Mrs. Vlokh. He stressed that sleep deprivation may only cause serious mental health disorders, but in the best cases, such as the general welfare and productivity.
These rings for Tetyan Horobchenko, who are often targeted by Russian drones and missiles, near Kiev, near Kiev. During the attacks, husband hides in the bathroom with a cat and dog – then struggles to fall asleep when it ends. Instead, he said he was going through the news on his phone.
“Sometimes the lack of sleep doesn’t affect me, but I see that we are different from the other version that I have enough sleep.”
Of course, drones are not the only cause of concern. In LVIV, in Western Ukraine, where the air raidal alarms are less, 38-year-old Volodymyr Behlov said that the future was awake of the future.
“I felt my lost tomorrow,” Mr. Behov, who manages cultural events. These are the worried ones, he decided to take a recipe for antidepressants who helped him sleep.
But the pills are not always working nor a choice for everyone. Hanna Lesiuk, who is 50, 50 years old, who lives on the edge of Kiev, took the antidepressants, but every time he heard the explosions still became physically ill.
Others use alternative tactics to feel safer or to be able to sleep themselves. Some beds are far from the aisles and windows. The Central Ukrainian region of Vinnytsia, 41, 41, closed itself in a weighty blanket of 15 pounds. In the west of Ukraine, Maria Kysil, 33, puts a medical set with a turnstile in the bedroom.
In Kiev, 26-year-old Valentyn Maidaniuk, who worked at a aviation university, said he did not spare this. “I often think my building is how strong my building is when you couldn’t sleep.”
39, Psychological Health Adviser Maryna Hrudiy, accepted physical change with a recipe for antidepressants. He was awake, he scared his 6-year-old daughter of a holiday would bury his 6-year-old daughter in a different room. Now he takes the pills and shares a bed with him.
Children are not immune to stress or insomnia. 45-year-old Oksana Khodak, was assigned to sedatives when the level of concern was unbearable. Then his 14-year-old daughter Yaroslava was awake at night and saw the teenage’s hands. Now Yaroslava also takes a drug against sleeping pills and anxiety.
“I thought it was often, as we spoke often, I thought I was working well with my daughter and hugged him, although a terrible night.” It realized that Yaroslava struggled so much psychologically, “Just break me down.”
Olena Curanovi 37, 37, a psychiatrist to see a psychiatrist – “I felt like my flat, I felt like my flat.”
“In general,” said, “All this fears that all this was our daily: air sirens, while sleeping in the corridor, the antidepressants.”
Natalia Novosolova Information provided by Kiev; and Yurii Syvala From Lviv from Ukraine.
