People who have trouble sleeping often have a tough time with their relationships as the problem of sleep deprivation causes a spill over in almost all aspects of their lives.
Here are a few ways how a chronic sleep disorder can affect your sexual life:
1. Lack of sleep can lead to low energy, fatigue and perpetual tiredness which might lower your libido and interest in sex.
2. High levels of anxiety and increased tension caused by lack of sleep can also lead to sexual dysfunction at times.
3. Men with obstructive sleep apnea (an inability to breathe properly during sleep) can even result in low levels of testosterone and lesser interest in sexual activity.
4. Sleep disorders can lead to massive mood swings. It can make you quarrelsome and less able to deal with day to day problems. It gets difficult for you to handle even minor stress, leading to increased irritability and frustration.
This can impact your interaction with your partner and lead to differences, and can further affect your relationship in bed.
5. Sleep loss makes you less likely to engage in social activities. Sometimes people with sleep disorders try to avoid evening social engagements because they get worried that it will disrupt their sleep patterns.
They accommodate their sleep loss by rearranging or avoiding social activities, which leaves fewer opportunities for a single person to connect with the opposite sex.
Sleep deprivation can actually decrease your experience of positive emotions. It can cause to misjudge a woman’s sexual interest in you.
6. Sleep deprivation can actually decrease your experience of positive emotions. It can cause to misjudge a woman’s sexual interest in you. Loss of sleep has a profound effect on the brain especially, where risk-taking and decision-making are concerned.
When you are not well rested, it can have an unexpected effect on experiences related to mating and dating. It impairs attention, alertness, concentration, reasoning and response time. These symptoms can have quite a negative effect on your sex life.
7. Sleep disorders lead to lowered productivity and when others start to take a notice of it, it can do some serious damage to your career. This can even lead to depression, which directly affects your sexual drive.
Short sleepers are more likely to report psychological distress from lack of sleep, which leads to the overall low quality of relationships.
When partners resort to separate bedrooms because of sleeping disorders, it pretty much rules out any opportunity for spontaneous action.
So, it’s important that you take a professional's help before it’s too late and your relationship falls prey to something which cannot be actually dealt with.