The Mental Health Foundation have teamed up with Sleepio to raise awareness of the huge impact sleep has on everyone’s mental and physical health.

Figures from Sleepio’s Great British Sleep Survey show that people with insomnia – the most common sleep disorder in the UK – are twice as likely to lack energy in their everyday life, three times as likely to have low moods or lack concentration, and four times as likely to experience relationship problems as people who sleep well.

Sleep also affects our mental and physical health. According to the World Health Organisation, 52% of people who have a sleep problem also have a defined mental health problem and 54% of people who had a sleep problem also had a physical health problem.

‘Sleep Matters: the impact of sleep on health and wellbeing’ is the Mental Health Foundation’s in-depth report on the importance of sleep and its crucial role for our health, both physical and mental.

Copies of the report can be downloaded by going to http://www.howdidyousleep.org/

You can also download guide a sleep guide to help improve your sleep and take part in the Great Bristish Sleep Survey

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