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One sleepless night can rapidly reverse depression for several days in mice

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Re: One sleepless night can rapidly reverse depression for several days in mice

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Post by danielvaughn »

shikshake wrote: post #4

This must be why new parents always seem so bubbly and happy! But seriously, that’s very interesting and explains what I’ve experienced. I’ve been in a depression since quitting my phd a couple months ago and not having a direction in life, but whenever I have trouble sleeping I end up feeling better the next day. Maybe I’ll trying utilizing it to get my portfolio looking better.

There's something about getting 2-3 hours of sleep that makes me feel like I'm on top of the world throughout the day. I've always assumed it was a kind of wild delirium.

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Post by croes »

shtopointo wrote: post #13

What about all the other studies claiming that poor sleep causes depression? Not sure what to trust these days. Gut tells me poor sleep won't make you ahem "your brain feel slap-happy, loopy and almost giddy" (very scientific).

From the article

>Chronic sleep loss is well studied, and it’s uniformly detrimental effects are widely documented,” Kozorovitskiy said. “But brief sleep loss — like the equivalent of a student pulling an all-nighter before an exam — is less understood.

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Post by JaDogg »

I have some experience with this. But what can happen is sometime you overdo it and burn out physically, and depression hit at the same time. And you will be worse off.

Happiest time of my life was when I was going to gym regularly (about 3 - 4 days per week)

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Post by wouldbecouldbe »

shikshake wrote: post #4

This must be why new parents always seem so bubbly and happy! But seriously, that’s very interesting and explains what I’ve experienced. I’ve been in a depression since quitting my phd a couple months ago and not having a direction in life, but whenever I have trouble sleeping I end up feeling better the next day. Maybe I’ll trying utilizing it to get my portfolio looking better.

I don’t know.

Seems very correlated with people having a good reason to pull an all nighter.

Whether kids or business.

Meaning makes us tick

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Post by nehal3m »

catchnear4321 wrote: post #18
not-my-account wrote: post #3

Queue people blogging about their monthly “sleep fast” for optimized mood and focus.

plenty of people force themselves to stay up all night once in a blue moon for mental health reasons, all without blogging about it.

Really, this is a thing? I’ve never heard about it.

I used to stay up late sometimes when I was younger, but that was because the world went to sleep and I felt at peace doing my own thing. It wasn’t because I was trying to feel better the next day, in fact it tended to screw the next day up.

Re: One sleepless night can rapidly reverse depression for several days in mice

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Post by mrbungie »

shtopointo wrote: post #13

What about all the other studies claiming that poor sleep causes depression? Not sure what to trust these days. Gut tells me poor sleep won't make you ahem "your brain feel slap-happy, loopy and almost giddy" (very scientific).

I guess just one sleepless night is not the same as chronic poor sleep patterns.

Also, it's interesting because sleepless nights are kind of a sign in bipolar disorder patients that an (hypo)-manic episode is about to occur or is actually occurring.

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