Posted by dessbee on December 18, 2006, at 8:14:31
In reply to Re: Saffron - Anti depressant » dessbee, posted by Declan on December 17, 2006, at 12:22:00
Well, I think it is. There seems to be a strong connection. That is probably why SSRI does not work for so many people, it causes sleep deprivation. The difficulty lies in determine which ever came first, sleep disorder or depression.
Found this
"In recent years, researchers established that insomnia and depression are linked, but struggled to determine which came first. Many experts believed that depression caused insomnia until new drugs arrived that improved depression, but not insomnia. The idea that insomnia could be a contributor to, or predictor of, depression gained credence. The study presented today at APSS is the first to establish that insomnia prolongs bouts of sadness, hopelessness and loss of interest in life activities that characterize major depression, making patients less likely to recover. In particular, this first study of patients experiencing major depression found that those suffering from insomnia were over 10 times more likely still to be depressed after 6 months than those without insomnia, and 17 times more likely to remain depressed after a full year. The study concludes that targeting treatment specifically for insomnia will increase both the likelihood and the rate of recovery from major depression."
http://counsellingresource.com/features/archives/2005/drugs/sleep-depression/
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