Posted by LostBoyinNCBecksDark on October 23, 2007, at 19:49:58
In reply to Re: Study claims sleep deprivation causes psych probs, posted by Maxime on October 23, 2007, at 19:34:28
> I can't believe they got funding for that study. Of course lack of sleep causes psych problems!
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> Maxime
Yeah, but think of it this way. Most people think of depressed people as being these super tired, sad, irritable people who sleep all the time. Most people take sleep for granted, including most doctors and scientists. Depressed people might sleep a lot, but WHAT KIND OF SLEEP...or what quality of sleep are they getting? If you sleep ten or more hours a day but its cruddy, shallow, nonrestorative sleep that never or rarely gets you down into good, deep restorative sleep (slow wave sleep), that ten or more hours of sleep is not worth much.Factor in most psych meds suppress deep stage sleep and it makes sense that a lot of depressed people claim they never make much improvement.
We need more studies like this, along with a lot studies in psychiatric genetics studies. If mental health people could ever get away from this idea that its mostly your environment (bad parenting, rough childhood) and move into the 21st century along with the rest of the medical world, the mentally ill might not have to suffer as much.
Eric
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