Posted by bluedog on November 28, 2002, at 3:50:23
In reply to Question for you about sleep cycles and mood, posted by ItsHowdyDudyTime on November 27, 2002, at 21:27:40
> How many of you have ever thought that much of your severe depression problems was somehow, ultimately rooted in screwed up sleep cycles? I mean REAlLY screwed up sleep cycles.
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I found I couldnt easily fall asleep despite feeling exhausted and extremely tired at night. Id lay in bed and just couldnt fall asleep. I wasnt thinking about anything, wasnt worrying about anything. It was more like a physical deteroriation in my bodies sleep mechanism, complicated and misunderstood as that is. Id never experienced anything like it before in my life.
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> I personally believe the real solution to severe depression is sleep.
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> I have seriously wondered if the problem we describe as major depression is not so much a problem of needing to be activated or stimulated as is the common thinking, but more a problem of inability to recover properly like a healthy person does. Recovery is a very important and underrated thing.
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> Also, human growth hormone is released during deep sleep and this hormone is critical to recovery. Somes studies indicate that severe depressives have lower levels of human growth hormone.
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> Howdy Doody.
I completeley agree with you on this one. Your post almost perfectly describes many of the symptoms of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS).I have my own theories that depression, screwed up sleep and CFS are intimately related and in some cases can be one and the same thing.
Therefore, to treat your crappy sleep and your depression my personal advice is to commence a treatment program that would be used by experts for the treatment of CFS.
Here is a link that provides a very good starting point to a web site that deals with CFS.
see http://www.immunesupport.com/library/showarticle.cfm/ID/3157/searchtext/sieverling/T/CFIDS_FM
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