Depression Tips: Sleep Like a Baby

Get more information at http://www.depressionrecoverygroups.com. Depression often causes poor sleep and poor sleep can lead to depression. Learn how to improve your sleep to reduce depression and get going again! This video features Dr. Vince Caimano who has worked with hundreds of people suffering with depression, bipolar disorder and anxiety. He is also the founder of Depression Recovery Groups a web meeting service that helps and encourages people living with depression.

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• anxiety
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[snizzle515151]

Too much REM sleep makes me exhausted :o( stupid depression :(

[DepressionTips]

@snizzle515151 Getting your sleep pattern working for you is so fundamentally important to helping you to do better with depression. While the research on depression says that it is a cause of sleep problems, it is also true that better sleep habits can help you to better manage depression. i hope you are able to try some new approaches to sleep and that you are successful.

[eternallyempty]

I sleep too much . . . I also dream all the time, I dream of interacting with my friends . . . it's ironic, I sleep so much I feel tired during the day

[DepressionTips]

Sleeping too much is common with depression - it's usually that or having trouble sleeping enough. It might help you to try a few things if you haven't already. Forcing yourself to get up at a certain hour might obviously help - often an appointment - something as simple as coffee with a friend can help here. Walking with a friend early might help you to sleep more soundly and to get up earlier. Another thing to check out is the possiblity of SAD - check out light therapy if this is an issue.

[molyneux1000]

The 7 or 8 hours of sleep he quotes is not evidenced based. Every individual requires different amounts of sleep. The other advice is useful.

[DepressionTips]

Thanks for your comment. Seven or 8 hours is indeed evidence-based. (See William Dement's book The Promise of Sleep. Dement, a M.D. and Ph.D. is a sleep research pioneer with decades of research at Stanford where he founded the world's first sleep disorders center.) Each person does require a particular amount of sleep but if you are much lower than 7 hours or much higher than 9 you might have a problem and it might be contributing to other issues like depression.

[TheDooosh]

Holy Moly sorry but this dude sounds and looks like most depressed man on the planet

[jkseiden]

oh my god, does this guy ever blink?

[dianananananana]

He blinked like once during the whole video. Now I'm too SCARED to sleep.

[dementedorchid]

Watching this man talk about sleep debt is curing my depression. ;) IM HEALED! (laughing hysterically)

[DavidXG360]

Those eyes... looks like a psycho-killer.

[vegano1]

EYES THAT STARE INTO YOUR SOUL!!!