This is like the TV shows where somebody defuses a bomb by clipping certain color wires (because bomb makers always consult the bomb-makers' color code reference manual, and anyone else can just look up what standard colors they used).
How mental health problems can affect sleep. There are number of different ways that a mental health problem can have an impact on your sleep. For example: 1  Stress and anxiety can cause you to have thoughts racing through your mind, making it difficult for you to sleep.leep problems can lead to any of the following: 1  Struggling to deal with everyday life â tiredness reduces your ability to deal with difficult situations as well as the challenges of day-to-day life. 2  This may lower your self-esteem, make it harder to cope and cause your mental health to deteriorate.
It's well known that lack of sleep can increase your chances of getting sick. A new study shows just how direct that connection is. The research found that the circadian clocks of mice control an essential immune system gene that helps their bodies sense and ward off bacteria and viruses.side from directly impacting your immune function, another explanation for why poor sleep can have such varied detrimental effects on your health is that your circadian system drives the rhythms of biological activity at the cellular level. Hence disruptions tend to cascade outward throughout your entire body.