Sleep Habits: How You Might Be Unintentionally Sabotaging Your
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Unintentionally Sabotaging Your Sleep  If you're experiencing
excessive sleepiness, poor sleep habits are often the cause.
It's important to review your routines, schedules, and the
environment you're sleeping in so you can spot potential
problems and make adjustments.    Another reason for excessive
sleepiness is a change in schedule, which could be caused by
work or school responsibilities. In particular, shift workers,
who keep nontraditional hours and often switch schedules, are at
high risk for excessive sleepiness. This is because it's
difficult to sleep 7-9 hours when those hours are not in line
with traditional nightfall, but it's also because when your
schedule changes, it takes your body a long time to adjust.
Sometimes by the time the adjustment happens, your schedule has
shifted yet again. Taking care of your sleep by making sure your
bedroom is quiet and dark during your slee