Posted by Ines on March 12, 2007, at 5:20:54
In reply to Depression and the Human Givens Institute, posted by FredPotter on March 11, 2007, at 22:58:13
> According to them it's got nothing to do with the brain:
>
> http://www.hgi.org.uk/archive/Depression.htmClearly they have a pretty limited one-sided view, but it's interesting about the sleep/ dream thing. I find I start dreaming pretty much as soon as I fall asleep, even if I just doze off on a train. The more depressed I get the worse it is, and it gets to a point when I sleep more and more but always wake up exhausted; I also almost always remember my dreams. I read a research article a while ago that mentioned that one of the things that is common across all depression subtypes is that the majority of sufferers (I seem to remember a v high figure like 80% but could be wrong there) go into REM (dreaming) sleep much faster than non-depressed subjects.
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