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I know that most forms of clinical depression and the treatment associated with it has the side effect of a desire to sleep longer. 10 hours is a normal amount
by keerthiko 7y ago
I know that most forms of clinical depression and the treatment associated with it has the side effect of a desire to sleep longer. 10 hours is a normal amount of time sleeping for people on anti-depressants. I'm not entirely certain whether sleeping closer to 8 would be any better for their mental or physical well being.
- abakker 7y agoThis reminded me of this article - https://mosaicscience.com/story/staying-awake-surprisingly-effective-way-treat-depression/ https://mosaicscience.com/story/staying-awake-surprisingly-e... - which discusses treating depression by purposely putting patients into extremely sleep deprived states.
- qwsxyh 7y agoNote that this is for bipolar sufferers rather than unipolar depression sufferers.
- hackerbabz 7y agoWhen I finally got medical treatment for severe anxiety the sleepiness side effect from my medication was a godsend. I really think it helped me recover just knowing that no matter how horrible I was feeling, I would be asleep in an hour.