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Staying Awake Is A Surprisingly Effective Way To Treat Depression
digg.com/ ^ | Linda Geddes

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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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: depression; sleep
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1 posted on 01/24/2018 1:59:34 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

I’m tired and I’m unhappy.

:(

What to do? (sigh)


2 posted on 01/24/2018 2:02:30 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (R2: Proudly intruding since 1958)
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To: BenLurkin

I thought depression was cured when Trump won the election.


3 posted on 01/24/2018 2:03:50 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (The remoulade was a trifle tart, but the souflee for dessert more than made up for it.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Banana split....with EVERYTHING....


4 posted on 01/24/2018 2:07:16 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I would say it was for me and several people I know!


5 posted on 01/24/2018 2:09:04 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: BenLurkin

I thought magic mushrooms were the cure for depression. They open up the receptors. Taking mushrooms once or twice a year is better than sleep deprivation anytime.


6 posted on 01/24/2018 2:09:12 PM PST by political1 (Love your neighbors)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I’m going to make chocolate covered candied oranges this week. I had them in a specialty shop. They were soooooo good and soooo expensive....but super cheap and easy to make...and they store for a long time...


7 posted on 01/24/2018 2:09:46 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

Do share the recipe and/or link to pictures!


8 posted on 01/24/2018 2:10:56 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: BenLurkin
I know people who are so depressed they can't sleep. They're still depressed.

9 posted on 01/24/2018 2:16:38 PM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: NEMDF

https://www.tastemade.com/shows/hungry-af/candied-orange-slices


10 posted on 01/24/2018 2:16:55 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

Thanks! Looks DELICIOUS!


11 posted on 01/24/2018 2:19:56 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: BenLurkin
I suppose it makes sense.

My sister is a manic-depressive.

When she is on a manic episode she barely sleeps at all. But she is happy.

12 posted on 01/24/2018 2:29:01 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
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To: BenLurkin

I do feel better after a sleepless or low hour sleep night.

But the older I get the more tired I feel...


13 posted on 01/24/2018 2:40:29 PM PST by reed13k
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To: political1; Fungi

???????

True?


14 posted on 01/24/2018 2:46:48 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: reed13k
I do feel better after a sleepless or low hour sleep night.

Strangely, so do I. I'll think that a two-hour-sleep night will have me dragging, but I'm usually very alert and more energetic. Has science been lying to us?

That said, I crash the next night.

15 posted on 01/24/2018 2:57:32 PM PST by fwdude (Why is it that the only positive things to come out of LGBT organizations are their AIDS tests?)
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To: Sacajaweau

WOW! I remember eating that when I was a kid. Haven’t seen them in a candy store for decades. Good luck with your project.


16 posted on 01/24/2018 3:02:31 PM PST by Nothingburger
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To: BenLurkin

Bump for later.


17 posted on 01/24/2018 3:08:03 PM PST by Springman (Rest In Peace YaYa123, Bahbah, and Just Lori.)
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To: BenLurkin

It sounds like you are still unhappy, but you’re just too sleepy to know it.


18 posted on 01/24/2018 3:08:39 PM PST by MNDude (releaSETHememo)
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To: BenLurkin

I have to buy those light bulbs that simulate sunlight to ward off my depression. I make use of them every day, particularly when we go from Daylight Saving Time to Standard time.

I can barely wait till March 11.


19 posted on 01/24/2018 3:24:06 PM PST by onyx (JOIN 300 CLUB BY DONATING $34 MONTHLY! No Wall, No DACA. #ReleaseTheMemoNOW!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Mountains of cocaine.


20 posted on 01/24/2018 3:26:06 PM PST by EEGator
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