Sleep is often overlooked while trying to balance daily life with school, work, and homework assignments to top it off. At the end of each day, it is easy to say “I’ll just stay up tonight to finish my homework, I’ll be fine tomorrow” but we fail to realize this bad habit can affect us beyond our physical being. Sleep and mental health are closely connected together and can have a great impact on the way you feel and how these symptoms come about. People with poor sleep experience mental health issues than people with better sleep. "The association between sleep and mental health is well documented. For example, people with insomnia are 10 and 17 times more likely than those without insomnia to experience clinically significant levels of depression and anxiety, respectively. Furthermore, a meta-analysis of 21 longitudinal studies reported that people with insomnia at baseline had a two-fold risk of developing depression at follow-up compared with people who did not experience insomnia" (Scott et al., 2021). There are other mental health difficulties that can come from lack of sleep. "For example, poor sleep has also been associated with post-traumatic stress, eating disorders, and psychosis spectrum experiences such as delusions and hallucinations. (Scott et al,. 2021)