Link Found Between Sleep Duration and Depression

[satanboy]

Two new studies published in the journal Sleep have found a link between sleep duration and depression.

“Healthy sleep is a necessity for physical, mental, and emotional well-being,” said American Academy of Sleep Medicine President Dr. M. Safwan Badr. “This new research emphasizes that we can make an investment in our health by prioritizing sleep.”

The first study of 1,788 adult twins discovered a gene by environment interaction between self-reported sleep duration and depressive symptoms.

According to researchers, the findings suggest that those who sleep shorter — or longer — than the normal eight or so hours a night increased the genetic risk for depressive symptoms.

Among twins with a normal sleep duration of 7 to 8.9 hours per night, the total heritability of depressive symptoms was 27 percent, according to the researchers. The genetic influence increased to 53 percent among twins with a shorter sleep duration of just five hours a night and 49 percent among those who reported sleeping 10 hours a night.

“We were surprised that the heritability of depressive symptoms in twins with very short sleep was nearly twice the heritability in twins sleeping normal amounts of time,” said principal investigator Nathaniel Watson, M.D., associate professor of neurology and co-director of the University of Washington Medicine Sleep Center in Seattle. “Both short and excessively long sleep durations appear to activate genes related to depressive symptoms.”

“The study’s findings suggest that optimizing sleep may be one way to maximize the effectiveness of treatments for depression, such as psychotherapy,” he said.

Another study of 4,175 children between the ages of 11 and 17 found that sleeping six hours or less a night increases the risk for major depression, which in turn increases the risk for decreased sleep among adolescents.

“These results are important because they suggest that sleep deprivation may be a precursor for major depression in adolescents, occurring before other symptoms of major depression and additional mood disorders,” said principal investigator Robert E. Roberts, Ph.D., professor of behavioral sciences in the School of Public Health at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, Texas.

“Questions on sleep disturbance and hours of sleep should be part of the medical history of adolescents to ascertain risk.”

psychcentral.com

 

[Picard]

I haven't had a good night's sleep since 15 December 2013. That's when I bought a Auto CPAP machine.

But ... I haven't had a good nights sleep since yonks and yonks before that ... that is years and years before now. I have been snoring heavily since primary school so sleep deprivation has been following me my whole life. I am a lesser man than I could have been because of this.

I have been meaning to write my story on this forum, but it is going to take multiple posts to inform you all of all the details of my struggle. I'm busy trying to chronologically document my medical history .. but it is difficult and it will take time.

Let's just say ... I don't sleep enough. Not by a long shot.

Everything about me has and is suffering because of it.

Work, social relations, personal well-being ... everything. Even this bloody forum.

I wear glasses ... but if I take off my glasses many people are surprised to see the huge bags under my eyes because of a lack of sleep.

The problem is ... if anyone has a spare R250 000 to grant me I could get a jaw operation to increase the space at the back of my throat ... ... If not I have to settle for a Auto CPAP machine with which I can not breathe (the soft tissue at the back of my throat collapses even with the CPAP machine pumping at high level ... and if it blasts at more than high level ... I can not breathe) without it I also can not breathe.

So I'm somewhere between a rock and a ****ing hard place.

Watch this forum ... I will be posting my full story in the near future .... asking you all for some advice, regarding my prospective dealing with my medical aid company (Discovery).

There are some huge problems on the horizon with them, regarding my planned Sleep-Apnea treatment.

 

[DJ...]

Certainly a link, but I'm not yet convinced that it's a causal link...

 

[Paul Hjul]

correlation is not causation

 

[maumau]

Have you been to that snore clinic? John robbie on 702's been raving about some device he got from them.

 

[Picard]

Have you been to that snore clinic? John robbie on 702's been raving about some device he got from them.

Talking to me???

I have been to many.

 

[OverKill69]

I haven't had a good night's sleep since 15 December 2013. That's when I bought a Auto CPAP machine.

But ... I haven't had a good nights sleep since yonks and yonks before that ... that is years and years before now. I have been snoring heavily since primary school so sleep deprivation has been following me my whole life. I am a lesser man than I could have been because of this.

I have been meaning to write my story on this forum, but it is going to take multiple posts to inform you all of all the details of my struggle. I'm busy trying to chronologically document my medical history .. but it is difficult and it will take time.

Let's just say ... I don't sleep enough. Not by a long shot.

Everything about me has and is suffering because of it.

Work, social relations, personal well-being ... everything. Even this bloody forum.

I wear glasses ... but if I take off my glasses many people are surprised to see the huge bags under my eyes because of a lack of sleep.

The problem is ... if anyone has a spare R250 000 to grant me I could get a jaw operation to increase the space at the back of my throat ... ... If not I have to settle for a Auto CPAP machine with which I can not breathe (the soft tissue at the back of my throat collapses even with the CPAP machine pumping at high level ... and if it blasts at more than high level ... I can not breathe) without it I also can not breathe.

So I'm somewhere between a rock and a ****ing hard place.

Watch this forum ... I will be posting my full story in the near future .... asking you all for some advice, regarding my prospective dealing with my medical aid company (Discovery).

There are some huge problems on the horizon with them, regarding my planned Sleep-Apnea treatment.

What medical aid plan are you on?

If a specialist diagnoses your condition as severe enough it wouldn't be elective surgery.

A butcher (orthodontist) wanted to surgically shorten my jaw (I was 16 and I had a quite pronounced under-bite attributed to my bottom jaw being too long) because he thought that I'd grind my bottom teeth away before I'd hit 30. We didn't do the surgery because it would have been "elective surgery" and the medical aid coverage would only cover the stay in hospital and the tap water.
Because it turns out... orthodontists have been milking the system for years with that one, performing this surgery on teenagers when they didn't really fall in the "health threatening" bracket.

I had a sleeping disorder after my dad passed away and my shyat fell apart on top of the rest of the things falling apart...

can I ask another questions - if I may

Body condition?
If i put on just the slightest amount of fat on my neck... i snore like a mother trucker... If i put on just a teensy bit more, I stop breathing during sleep. Could we be in the same boat?

 

[Picard]

Body condition?
If i put on just the slightest amount of fat on my neck... i snore like a mother trucker... If i put on just a teensy bit more, I stop breathing during sleep. Could we be in the same boat?

Yes, to a degree. Except I don't have a sweet spot somewhere in the middle of anywhere.

I'm ****ed six-ways, side-ways from Monday to Sunday.

I'll try to compose an essay (of myself) somewhere during this week, at the latest next week (... ... hopefully).

 

[Seriously]

Hello then I must be a very depressed person. Thank you scientists for pointing that out to me after all these years I will make a point of it to see and exspert tomorrow to cure my sudden "depression"!