Sleep Disturbance
Any significant disruption to normal sleep — including difficulty falling or staying asleep, abnormal behaviours during sleep, or persistently poor sleep quality.
Quick answer
Sleep disturbance encompasses any clinically significant disruption to normal sleep patterns — including difficulty initiating or maintaining sleep, abnormal sleep behaviours, or poor sleep quality. ICD-10: G47 (sleep disorders); ICD-11: 7A0–7B. A broad transdiagnostic symptom affecting physical and mental health when sustained.
Recognition
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Difficulty sleeping in some form — whether getting to sleep, staying asleep, or waking too early — that leaves the person unrefreshed and impairs daytime functioning.
What is Sleep Disturbance?
Any significant disruption to normal sleep — including difficulty falling or staying asleep, abnormal behaviours during sleep, or persistently poor sleep quality.
Approaches Commonly Explored
Commonly explored for conditions related to Sleep Disturbance, grouped by mechanism — select your subtype above to highlight the most relevant path.
How to use these approaches
Most people begin with Stabilise approaches, then progress toward Resolve and Sustain.
Cognitive patterns, emotional processing, and stress response.
Autonomic nervous system — sympathetic / parasympathetic balance.
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