Sleeping in rooms with even a little light can increase risk of depression
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Re: Sleeping in rooms with even a little light can increase risk of depression
#2Meanwhile:
22. ▲ The antidepressant effect of sleep deprivation (mosaicscience.com)
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Re: Sleeping in rooms with even a little light can increase risk of depression
#3I think a lot of studies like this are just wrong. When I was a kid, I couldn't sleep without a light on because I'd get depressed. So later on in life if I didn't remember that, I'd think that I just had a light on and now I'm depressed. I think depressed people like a little light.
Much like they say red meat causes cancer, I don't think it's the red meat. I think it's how it's cooked. Red meat is usually barbecued and that char is what could be causing the cancer.
Re: Sleeping in rooms with even a little light can increase risk of depression
#4Meanwhile: 22. ▲ The antidepressant effect of sleep deprivation (mosaicscience.com) 389 points by onuralp 1 day ago | flag | hide | 135 comments
There is no contradiction.
Re: Sleeping in rooms with even a little light can increase risk of depression
#5Link to the study: https://sci-hub.tw/https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/187/...
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Re: Sleeping in rooms with even a little light can increase risk of depression
#7What I don't like are the "solutions" they propose: noise? use earplugs, light? use curtains. Well I will not be able to sleep if I have something in my ears and if you pull the curtains then you can no longer wake up naturally with the Sun. How about changing your lifestyle so that you can have silence and dark during the night and light in the morning without any "devices". You might have to quit your job :)
Re: Sleeping in rooms with even a little light can increase risk of depression
#8It seems like a study like this could have actually modified the light levels and measured the changes.
Re: Sleeping in rooms with even a little light can increase risk of depression
#9What I don't like are the "solutions" they propose: noise? use earplugs, light? use curtains. Well I will not be able to sleep if I have something in my ears and if you pull the curtains then you can no longer wake up naturally with the Sun. How about changing your lifestyle so that you can have silence and dark during the night and light in the morning without any "devices". You might have to quit your job :)
So other people should change their jobs because you can't sleep with earplugs? Seems like a curious way to see the world.
Regarding light, if you want morning sunlight, motorized curtains with a timer are cheaper than moving.
Re: Sleeping in rooms with even a little light can increase risk of depression
#10It seems like a study like this could have actually modified the light levels and measured the changes.
Actually, they didn't touch the lights at all, they only measured the lights that people already were exposed to. They write that "an interventional method, such as a randomized controlled trial using a LAN exposure, is not possible because of ethical concerns".