Posted on 01/24/2018 1:59:34 PM PST by BenLurkin
Using sleep deprivation to lift people out of severe depression may seem counterintuitive, but for some people, it's the only thing that works.
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"Sleep deprivation really has opposite effects in healthy people and those with depression," says Benedetti. If you're healthy and you don't sleep, you'll feel in a bad mood. But if you're depressed, it can prompt an immediate improvement in mood, and in cognitive abilities. But, Benedetti adds, there's a catch: once you go to sleep and catch up on those missed hours of sleep, you'll have a 95% chance of relapse.
The antidepressant effect of sleep deprivation was first published in a report in Germany in 1959. This captured the imagination of a young researcher from Tübingen in Germany, Burkhard Pflug, who investigated the effect in his doctoral thesis and in subsequent studies during the 1970s. By systematically depriving depressed people of sleep, he confirmed that spending a single night awake could jolt them out of depression.
Benedetti became interested in this idea as a young psychiatrist in the early 1990s. Prozac had been launched just a few years earlier, hailing a revolution in the treatment of depression. But such drugs were rarely tested on people with bipolar disorder. Bitter experience has since taught Benedetti that antidepressants are largely ineffective for people with bipolar depression anyway.
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Medical Meth.
Probably one of the reasons the Allmans liked Macon so much.
http://www.allmanbrothersband.com/gallery/abb/Art/Eat-a-Peach-Inside-Cover102.jpg
I cut the slices in half so I’m only doing half moons...more and easier to handle.
Mine started with nearly and ended with Trump!
Are you talking about the orange peel/rind with Dark Chocolate?
Used to be my favorite candy - from Fannie May - then they raised the price to $15+/pound!
I would be very interested in how they turn out - if that is indeed what you’re cooking up.
Yes, you can just do the rinds, too.
I buy the dark chocolate from Aldi to melt.
One orange and $2 bucks worth of chocolate. Cheap AWESOME treat.
I've had lemon, too. Sooooo good.
Mmmm. Looks delish! And easy!
Kind of explains my penchant for all-nighters. Back when I practiced law I suffered from mild depression. If I had a brief due, I would drag my feet until night before the document was due, then have a tremendously productive period from about 2:30 a.m. to 6:30 a.m. and get it done, with a positive attitude and good purpose. Then, the rush of having come through the test would last all day. But no longer than that.
Another strategy is to fast.
More sex - back in the ‘60s, some folks did a Kinsey type “sex study” (officialized a gang bang) where a gal had sex with 100 men - when it was over, they described her as “Tired but happy”.....
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