Learn why sleep deprivation and mental health issues have a bidirectional relationship, plus tips for breaking the cycle.
the next day, you’ve experienced one of the effects of sleep deprivation on mental health firsthand. Lack of sleep can shorten our fuse by, or the part of the brain that processes emotions like fear and anxiety. Without the kind of regulation that happens during sufficient sleep, the amygdala is essentially more prone to firing at the slightest inconvenience.
“Anxiety disrupts our nervous system by in periods of ‘activation’ more frequently and more intensely,” says Amorosi. “This increases the amount of stress chemicals like cortisol , which keep our arousal systems turned ‘on’ for the sake of self-preservation.”And that makes it harder to turn everything “off” at night. “If, for some reason, my brain is interpreting danger , it will not let me go to bed because that is too scary,” explains Amorosi.
Much like with anxiety, sleep difficulties prompted by depression can, in turn, worsen depressive symptoms. Indeed, lack of sleep has been shown to make it tougher for folks who deal with repetitive negative thinking , which could be worsening your sleep and mental health, and otherwise develop a plan to tackle both.
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