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.
Physical Health. Sleep plays an important role in your physical health. For example, sleep is involved in healing and repair of your heart and blood vessels. Ongoing sleep deficiency is linked to an increased risk of heart disease, kidney disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and stroke.leep deficiency increases the risk of obesity in other age groups as well. Sleep helps maintain a healthy balance of the hormones that make you feel hungry (ghrelin) or full (leptin). When you don't get enough sleep, your level of ghrelin goes up and your level of leptin goes down.