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Submitted byTheJudgeI just stumble on
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/19/1728_50585.htm">this article by accident. Apparently, one way to fight depression is to party all night long.
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No, it's not a dream: not getting enough sleep can actually help treat depression. A review article in a recent issue of Biological Psychiatry suggests that doctors may soon be using sleep deprivation therapy to treat depression as regularly as they did some 20 years ago.
In the 1970s, a depressed insomniac discovered that getting much less sleep than he wanted surprisingly improved his mood the next day. Doctors who treated depression began using sleep deprivation as a form of therapy. But sleep deprivation's popularity was brief, and soon the evolution of highly effective antidepressant medications made it all but obsolete.
So instead of throwing yourself in the river, there is a positive alternative! Sit in front of your PC all night long, post at tehgeekery(OMFGLOL!!11), and spend the rest of your life looking like crap! If you’re lucky, perhaps you’ll also suffer from one of the following conditions caused by sleep deprivation:
Reduced alertness
Shortened attention span
Slower than normal reaction time
Poorer judgement
Reduced awareness of the environment and situation
Reduced decision-making skills
Poorer memory
Reduced concentration
Increased likelihood of mentally 'stalling' or fixating on one thought
Increased likelihood of moodiness and bad temper
Reduced work efficiency
Loss of motivation
Errors of omission (making a mistake by forgetting to do something)
Errors of commission (making a mistake by doing something, but choosing the wrong option)
Microsleep (brief periods of involuntary sleeping that range from a few seconds to a few minutes in duration
OH MY GOD!!! Someone buy Bush a good bed! The poor bastard just needs to rest apparently. Unless he's depressed... Maybe that's the mystery behind Mr. Bush... Since I have no evidence, I'll just maintatin that's he's just plain dumb.
Seriously, I'm no scientist or expert on the whole to sleep or not to sleep question, but I would think sleep deprivation would only make things worse in the long run. It seems like a counter productive, unatural treatment method to me. Next, they'll try to starve people!
"Oh, he died from starvation and exhaustion, but at least he wasn't depressed!"
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