Is your type a fusion type or a separate type? I want you to be aware of the importance of "sleep" now /Psychiatric specialist, Hozumi Sakura

However, he says, "The balance is likely to be lost now," he wrote in his book, "The Morning Night Mid -intermediate type is determined in hereditary!Mr. Sakura Hozumi, a department and industrial physician.She points out that the loss of work life has had a major adverse effect on "sleep."

■ The number of people who fall into "Work Life Blend" rapidly

In order to enhance your life, it is important that both the balance of both on and off -the so -called "work -life balance" is available.

However, it became very difficult to balance the remote work due to the corona evil.In terms of time and spatial, the boundaries between work and life are ambiguous, so the number of people who have fallen into the "work life blend" is increasing rapidly.In fact, I am one of them, who started working at home due to corona.

It has been known that there are some types that are easy to adapt to such situations and those that are not.In terms of time and spatial, there are types called "fusion type", which is uncomfortable even if the boundary between work and life is ambiguous, and a type called "separation type" that wants to properly separate the boundaries.

Before Corona's evil, I thought, even if I worked like a thing, I would be able to work and live well.I did it.However, when I actually worked while doing housework and childcare at home, it was not so.I was a complete separation type.

■ Work Life Blend leads to sleep disturbance

I couldn't leave my daughter in a nursery school when the nursery was closed due to the first emergency declaration, so for me who is a separate type, my daughter will definitely break into the online conference.I wanted to avoid it.

Under such circumstances, the dilemma of "I want to ensure the quality of work while doing housework and childcare properly ...", and I felt very stressed.

Moreover, my husband, who came to work at home in the same way, was also separated.As the waves of the new colon virus infection grow, the couple with strong stress can not leave their daughter in a nursery school, and the atmosphere of my family is always in a situation where they have to meet each other.It became a little harder.

In addition, my parents' physical condition overlap at that time, and my physical and mental fatigue peaked.

Of course, such a life also affected "sleep".I stopped working and took a bath and put it on, and then started doing work that I couldn't do in the daytime until midnight.When I worked just before going to bed, I often woke up my head and couldn't sleep, or once I slept, I woke up many times on the way.

■ Time to touch the greatly increased digital device

One of the effects of sleep may have increased time to touch digital devices such as personal computers and smartphones.As with myself, unlike working face -to -face, digital devices are indispensable for remote work.

As a result, many research data has been published that the time to touch digital devices has increased compared to the Corona evil.The graph below is the result of a questionnaire for men and women in their 10s and 50s in 2020 in 2020.

The result is really surprising.In response to the question, "Is there a change in contact time with digital devices per day compared to the past?"On the other hand, 21%of those who "become more than an hour", 19%of those who have become "long" and more than 3 hours, and as many as 22%say "more than 5 hours."。

Also, the only factor that has more time to touch digital devices is not only remote work.Even if you are working in a style that is the same as before Corona, you will not be able to go to drink or enjoy traveling with friends as before.increased.

In such a life, there was more time to touch digital devices, such as surfing the Internet late at night, checking SNS, and watching video sites.

■ The "light" of the digital device lowers the quality of sleep

This is a big problem.Because the "control of light" we take is absolutely important to get good sleep.To put it simply, you can see that the quality of sleep is greatly reduced because it is exposed to a digital device just before going to bed.

In such a life, I was not able to deal with the quality of sleep properly.The only thing that was done was to stop drinking, which greatly reduces the quality of sleep, for about a month, the hardest month.

The only thing I had done on a daily basis has been done on a daily basis, such as adjusting the bath time and not bringing digital devices into my bedroom.

Rather, it was no longer possible to exercise five days a day, which was made before the Corona, and there was a time when my sleep quality temporarily dropped significantly.

In this way, it may be difficult to always get a good sleep in an emergency, but it is a long time to add a little device to reduce the adverse effect on physical condition and wait for the emergency to dawn.I think it's very important from the perspective.

■ Be aware of "sleep" as a guideline for choosing "work style = way of life"

Of course, I guess the same experience as I have mentioned so far is common to many people.But, as I myself, many people have not been able to deal with this problem.

When I talked to the employees of the company that I served as an industrial physician, there is a story that it has become easier due to the loss of commuting time due to remote work.

However, there are many cases where I have to work while looking at a child who cannot be deposited in a nursery school like me, or work while taking care of my family, such as nursing care, so it cannot be simply measured with working hours.Many people have increased the burden.The quality of the sleep of those people will definitely decrease.

Fortunately, it is now an era where you can choose various ways of working.The remote work that has been considered so far is one of them.In addition, the degree of freedom in working style, such as flextime system and freelance, is increasing, and depending on how you are aware of sleep, you can spend more healthy and comfortable environments.

For me, people who have been busy and have been working hard without paying for sleep, so that they can be healthy, long and long in the future without spending a lot of money, self -care, including sleep from the perspective of psychiatrists and industrial physicians.We would like to engage in activities that expand our knowledge, such as early prevention of mental problems at work and managing the physical condition of women.

"Choosing a way of working" is nothing but "choosing a way of life".As one of the guidelines for choosing a way of working and life, I would like to be strongly aware of "sleep".

* This column is an arrangement of Hozumi Sakura's "Morning Night Mid -intermediate type is determined by hereditary!

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A Japanese Medical Association certified industrial physician, psychiatrist, Chinese medicine specialist, clinical psychologist.In 2001, he graduated from Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine and studied as a psychiatrist at Sapporo Medical University Hospital Neopper Psychiatry and Tokyo Matsusawa Hospital.He also learns a wide range of knowledge of internal medicine and Oriental medicine at the National Hospital Organization Tokyo Medical Center and Kitasato University Institute of Toyo Medicine.Since 2014, he has been active as an industrial physician with not only clinical experience in psychiatry and internal medicine, but also human resources and labor and knowledge.

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