(Study Finds) – Think the stress of 2020 only affects you when you’re awake? Think again. A OnePoll study of 2,000 Americans finds four in 10 people (41%) are up all night due to “next day anxiety” — fearing the uncertainty of what tomorrow will bring.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans (62%) struggle to fall asleep each night. Along with anxiety about the future, replaying the past day’s events (37%), being too hot or too cold (31%), and having too much caffeine before bed (28%) all get part of the blame for keeping people awake.

Several respondents even named other factors such as feeling uncomfortable in bed, being too itchy, or having a fear of nightmares as the reason they can’t fall asleep. For 101 respondents, their dogs are to blame for keeping them up at night. Only 77 cat owners made the same claim about their furry friend.

More than a quarter of Americans (27%) have been diagnosed with a sleeping disorder. The most common disorders among them are insomnia (45%), sleep apnea (44%), and restless leg syndrome (17%). Although 73 percent of the poll have never been diagnosed with a sleeping disorder, a third of them have spouses or partners that insist they have a sleeping disorder of some kind. READ MORE