Sleep & Mental Health: What Happens When You’re Sleep-Deprived #shorts
Sleep isn’t optional for your brain—it’s essential. Chronic sleep loss doesn’t just make you tired; it hijacks your emotional regulation, decision-making, memory, and focus. Protecting your sleep is protecting your mental health.
#SleepMatters #BrainHealth #MentalWellness #EmotionalRegulation #CognitivePerformance
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I love my snooze
Protecting your sleep is one of the best things you can do for your mental and physical health.
That's why being neurodivergent with perimenopause is the worst thing that can happen in your life to every aspect of your life if doctors never talk your symptoms seriously
Thanks for stating the bleeding obvious, doc!
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How did you know, Doctor? 😂 Seriously, these days I notice if I get one bad night of sleep, I can hardly cope with the next day. Today is one of those days 😩 I’ve tried everything and I mean everything in order to sleep better, however, nothing works. I keep trying though! ❤
Thank you 😊❤
I have finally found that 20mg melatonin gummy helps me sleep, soundly. I have fibromyalgia, so to be able to sleep is a blessing (I take Duloxetine 60mg for depression.
What do you do to address it when you are already sleep deprived?
Well, I have not been successful ever since I caught the delta strain and all of these things are happening. In 5 years it’s gotten worse and there is no more life.
Thanks, I'm going to sleep now.
I’m not watching this for trigger reasons but going inpatient for a week at the Menninger clinic fixed my sleep and now I sleep like a king
What about you much sleep? When I was a teen I'd hear sleeping too much could cause the same issues. Is that true?
I remember looking through some old books on psychiatry. I was looking through the history of bipolar disorder so that was my focus. There were cases in one particular book7 (can't remember the title) of depressed and "melancholic" patients who literally hadn't slept for months — and by the late 19th century they did keep detailed medical notes. Probably the most interesting book was called Lectures in Clinical Psychiatry by Emil Kraepelin. Kind of like Victorian reality TV with the patients brought out and interviewed (when that was possible) before a whole room full of young doctors addressed as "gentlemen" (no lady doctors back then) with every mental condition known included. If you're interested in history it's a great read.
Well, one cannot help that one cannot sleep.
Antidepressants suppress REM. This needs to be talked about bc I didn’t even know this until AI told me.
AND I have long covid induced insomnia + perimenopause.
A weighted blanket helps me fall asleep but my REM & Deep sleep cycles are very low
Sleep doc blames psych problems and psych doc blames sleep provlems. Noone wants to treat or help. Dont blame suicidality on me, im just the patient getting shit for care.
okay but WHAT can you do against it??❤
I have insomnia real bad
I’m trying to protect my sleep now. I just got my sleep study results back this week. It showed that I did not get any REM sleep, and only a little bit of deep sleep. It showed that my legs moved a lot all night long, and I tossed and turned all night.
Sometimes I can sleep for over 24 hours straight, and I can sleep through all three of my alarms sometimes. It’s terrible. I’m trying to figure out if this happens because I am not getting any REM sleep and quality deep sleep.
What do you do when you havent had a good nights sleep in many, many years? Body has learned to run on auto pilot.
Not me watching this at 4 a.m. because I woke up and couldn't go back to sleep after a week of poor sleep 😢
What if you've been having the worst possible lucid nightmares every single night for 5 years now, I can't even distinguish dreams from reality sometimes. I've been far too traumatized at this point by these nightmares I don't think I'll ever recover from the trauma. And I don't think I'll ever be able to live a normal life and have a good night of sleep ever again
How can I protect my sleep?i don't have depression or anxiety but I stiil have problems sleeping and I don't know why and what to do to sleep well.
how much sleep do u even need tho? some people say only 7 hours some say 8 or 9 hours 😭
Lack of sleep is also linked to weight gain and the inability to lose weight. Great video.
How can one having sleepless nights after childbirth get enough sleep
She just said it was an impulsive mistake tho!
And how did you come by this knowledge?
Adhd enters the room. Brings with it: chronic issues with sleep, troubles with impulsivity, emotional regulation, decision making, memory… and then you add CPTSD and your cooked in a hundred ways and then comes the fun part: protecting your sleep just gives you anxiety about your sleep and makes everything worse, because sleep cannot be controlled and you have to let go to fall asleep. Yeah, cooked in every which way.
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