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Insomnia and depression are linked in more ways than many people may have originally believed.
Researchers and physicians have long felt that insomnia may signal a different medical problem, including depression.
Unfortunately, new research seems to indicate that insomniacs may actually predisposed individuals towards mental illness, including depression.
In the industrialized world, it has long been a problem that people are chronically sleep deprived. Linking insomnia and depression has never been a stretch. Experts recommend that the average adult get eight hours of sleep every night. Some people do fine on six and others need ten.
The longer people stay in bed, the more people think they are either depressed or lazy.
Physicians and other experts agree that the right amount of sleep for a person is totally individual. People who require longer sleep cycles and forced to be 'normal' may begin experiencing insomnia and depression as they struggle against their own circadian rhythm.
The body needs sleep. It does not need insomnia and depression. The consensus has long been that depression caused insomnia. But in the hectic world of go to bed at midnight and get up at five, people can begin experiencing a cycle of insomnia and depression that's tough to break.
Lack of sleep depresses the body and the emotional state. People who begin to struggle under this umbrella of fatigue and depression may misconstrue their feelings and until recently, so did physicians. Patients treated for depression, however, did not see their insomnia improve necessarily.
Because insomnia is not just about people who have trouble going to sleep, but also those who wake frequently in the night or wake too early or in some way experience sleeplessness, the insomnia could instead be the contributor to the depression.
Treating the symptom and not the cause will leave patients to suffer.
People suffering from insomnia and depression need to treat both aspects of the issue. While depression can lead to insomnia, the reverse is also true.
Discovering the pattern and the way the conditions are linked to the individual can help physicians diagnose and correctly treat their patients. Inadequate sleep is as dangerous as no sleep. Current findings suggest that by treating both insomnia and depression, specifically the insomnia; then it will increase the speed and likelihood of recovering from the depression.
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