While insomnia can severely impact your mental health, it can also interfere with your professional life. Whether you are a student, athlete, or a full-time employee, you are likely to see negative effects of chronic sleep loss impacting your ability to perform. In the work field, for example, in one study of insomniacs, the absentee rate was 10 times higher for sufferers than for control groups. High levels of absenteeism not only put your job at risk but can also affect your weekly paycheck, making advancement difficult or impossible. If you are a student, you may be concerned about concentration and memory problems associated with even mild levels of insomnia. If you can’t focus on schoolwork or remember what your professors say during lectures, you’re not going to succeed in school. Ultimately, your future success factors would remain greatly at risk if proper amounts of quality sleep are not obtained.