Posted by fuchsia on August 8, 2006, at 22:45:05
In reply to Sleep Deprivation for depression, posted by Jimmyboy on August 8, 2006, at 11:31:38
Hi JB
Thanks for posting the links to those abstracts.
Sleep deprivation definitely works for me; I have bipolar II and it does make my thoughts race sometimes. As far as I can tell the effect is unfortunately fairly transient.
I take Lamictal and I'm not sure how the sleep deprivation interacts with that. I think the effect may have been greater before the Lamictal but then the depression was so much worse then so it's hard to tell.
Another factor more recently is that I had a baby in December last year so in this last 8 months I have had a lot of severe and ongoing sleep deprivation, more so in the first several months.
It's very hard to disentangle the effect of the Lamictal from the effect of the sleep deprivation as I did also increase the Lamictal over many months.As the months of sleep deprivation wore on I do think it eventually did drag on my mood. The baby sort of sleep deprivation though is not the way you would do it if you were setting out to use the sleep deprivation tool seriously.
fuchsia
> 2. "Therapeutic use of sleep deprivation in depression."
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> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12531127&query_hl=28
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> PS - sorry caan't figure out how to make a link .. but I guess you could copy/paste if you would like to check these out..
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> JB
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