Slammed
Active Member
- Jun 15, 2017
- 31,790
- 45,353
- 113
Every human reacts to it differently I think, but there's always some damage.
There is a physical and mental aspect to permanently changing your body clock. The physical is easy it's just a matter of forcing yourself to sleep and be awake at a different time. Being coherent and functional for the same hours can often be a little more difficult but again not hard to change once you get into a rhythm. The mental side of it is a lot harder to change because most people don't realise how their mental well being can be effected by simply changing their body clock. It does effect people different and not all people will be effected for the rest of their life but one of the biggest problems is that there is no way of saying for sure who gets effected and how much they get effected.
Shift work and the effects its had on people have been a big thing in my area in recent years and I know a lot of people who have been involved in studies to look at the physical and mental effects short and long term shift work has had on them from a variety of industries. In some ways I wish I'd got involved in the studies but 20 years ago when a lot of them started I was one of the people who believed working shift work was nothing more than changing your sleeping patterns.