Why a Lack of Sleep Makes Us Depressed: Expert Reveals What You Can Do About It.
Published on October 14, 2016 In a report from the Daily Mail, psychology professor Alice Gregory discusses the idea that insomnia happens before depression and improving sleep may help treat the condition. Historically, insomnia has been thought of as secondary to other disorders such as depression. The idea was that you became depressed – and that your sleep got messed up as a consequence. This might involve difficulty falling asleep, excessive time awake at night or waking up earlier than hoped. This may make sense to those who have experienced depression and found that thoughts of distressing events such as …
25 Important Facts You Should Probably Know About Sleep.
Robert Anthony in ENVISION May 22, 2016 2:14pm Sleeping is a lot more important than you might think. In today’s “rise and grind” world, we’re urged to sleep less and work more. We’re told that “sleep is for the weak.” We’re told “sleep is the cousin of death.” But is it really? Or is the whole anti-sleep narrative actually just fabricated folklore working against us? It’s important that we understand all of the different ways sleep is important for the human body. For instance, did you know sleeping for less than 7 hours a night shortens your life expectancy exponentially? Let’s …
Improve Your Sleep — and Your Life — With These 8 Tips.
JUNE 2, 2016 PETER GASCA CONTRIBUTOR Entrepreneur, Startup Consultant On a recent flight from London to Atlanta, I had the good fortune to sit next to a very gracious woman. We bonded, not because we had a great number of things in common but rather because she did not complain or object when I inadvertently fell asleep on her shoulder. Maybe not drooling on her neck pillow saved me. When I awoke, we laughed at my narcoleptic tendencies and shared a few tips about how we both manage to sleep on a 500-seat tin cantraveling at 567 miles per hour …