'Sleep Your Depression Away': De-stress Your Body with the right amount of sleep and healthy lifestyle changes
Depression disorders are as old as the Bible, even though Today they took a heavy toll on our frantic and hectic life. Accurate tests for the most serious cases are certainly highly recommendable, but before filling our bodies with medications to tame some of the associated symptoms, like insomnia, anxiety, etc. we'd better make an adjustment to our lifestyle.
Proper nutrition, stress management and exercise are usually the first suggested 'routes' to take and keep in check. Balancing our sleep time and maintaining a regular routine have also been considered critical steps in recovering from depression, but would you believe that a sleepless night could cure a few serious cases of depression?
Yes, even though it might sound odd, sleep-restriction therapy may play more benefits than we think in treating depression. Research studies show that as many as 70% of seriously depressed people - some of them classified depressed 'on the verge of suicide' - could be completely relieved of that painful condition with one night of "total sleep deprivation".
So, apparently, Sleep-Restriction-Therapy provides a highly effective, cost-free, non-toxic and easy-to-implement treatment for depression. Overindulging in sleep brings troubles just as insomnia does. According to some studies, a yet unidentified 'depressogenic' substance is produced during sleep, which is washed out during wakefulness. Even people not suffering from depression improved their moods by not oversleeping.
Depression disorders are as old as the Bible, even though Today they took a heavy toll on our frantic and hectic life. Accurate tests for the most serious cases are certainly highly recommendable, but before filling our bodies with medications to tame some of the associated symptoms, like insomnia, anxiety, etc. we'd better make an adjustment to our lifestyle.
Proper nutrition, stress management and exercise are usually the first suggested 'routes' to take and keep in check. Balancing our sleep time and maintaining a regular routine have also been considered critical steps in recovering from depression, but would you believe that a sleepless night could cure a few serious cases of depression?
Yes, even though it might sound odd, sleep-restriction therapy may play more benefits than we think in treating depression. Research studies show that as many as 70% of seriously depressed people - some of them classified depressed 'on the verge of suicide' - could be completely relieved of that painful condition with one night of "total sleep deprivation".
So, apparently, Sleep-Restriction-Therapy provides a highly effective, cost-free, non-toxic and easy-to-implement treatment for depression. Overindulging in sleep brings troubles just as insomnia does. According to some studies, a yet unidentified 'depressogenic' substance is produced during sleep, which is washed out during wakefulness. Even people not suffering from depression improved their moods by not oversleeping.
Thus, will the saying "April sweet sleeping" adjust to the new findings? May be a little! We could give it a try and breath a little earlier the brisk and fabulous April's morning hours.
Happy Spring Time to all!!!!
To know more, visit:
http://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2005nl/050100puinsomnia.htm
Giedke H. Therapeutic use of sleep deprivation in depression. Sleep Med Rev. 2002 Oct;6(5):361-77.
Giedke H, Klingberg S, Schwarzler F, Schweinsberg M. Direct comparison of total sleep deprivation and late partial sleep deprivation in the treatment of major depression. J Affect Disord. 2003 Sep;76(1-3):85-93.
One more thing.....Alcohol and Brain function damage
It's well known, some people will use a nightcap of alcohol as their sleeping pill, but beside the most important drawback associated with its use, dependency, another one is lurking: short-term-memory loss. It is called, Korsakoff's syndrome or Amnesic-Confabulatory Syndrome. The Korsakoff's syndrome is a neurological disorder characterized by damage to neurons and supporting cells of the Central Nervous System. It is caused by a lack of thiamine (or Vitamin B1) in the brain. Our brain needs Vitamin B1 which is destroyed by Alcohol
Well, better switch to something else, right?
.
http://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2005nl/050100puinsomnia.htm
Giedke H. Therapeutic use of sleep deprivation in depression. Sleep Med Rev. 2002 Oct;6(5):361-77.
Giedke H, Klingberg S, Schwarzler F, Schweinsberg M. Direct comparison of total sleep deprivation and late partial sleep deprivation in the treatment of major depression. J Affect Disord. 2003 Sep;76(1-3):85-93.
One more thing.....Alcohol and Brain function damage
It's well known, some people will use a nightcap of alcohol as their sleeping pill, but beside the most important drawback associated with its use, dependency, another one is lurking: short-term-memory loss. It is called, Korsakoff's syndrome or Amnesic-Confabulatory Syndrome. The Korsakoff's syndrome is a neurological disorder characterized by damage to neurons and supporting cells of the Central Nervous System. It is caused by a lack of thiamine (or Vitamin B1) in the brain. Our brain needs Vitamin B1 which is destroyed by Alcohol
Well, better switch to something else, right?
.
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