http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(17)30328-0/fulltext?elsca1=tlpr
In the largest randomized control trial for mental health, researchers discovered a link from insomnia to paranoia and hallucinations. Successful treatment of insomnia cut paranoia and hallucinations by around half. While the researchers don't extend similar links as existing outside the studied population, the correlation is quite clear and strong that treatment of insomnia could lead to improvements in other mental health symptoms in other populations.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by lx on Saturday September 09 2017, @06:39AM (5 children)
Strange how the medical profession has taken this long to investigate something that insomniacs have been saying forever.
Apparently listening to your patients is the new hot thing in medicine.
(Score: 4, Touché) by takyon on Saturday September 09 2017, @06:44AM
It's just a fad.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @09:08AM
But... but... listen to us doctor, read our lips... 8 hours/day of sleep won't let all my personalities manifest enough and they'll become angry; I'm used with some of them being out to get me, but some may even come to get you.
(Score: 2) by Geezer on Saturday September 09 2017, @10:52AM
Gregory House said it best, albeit in a fictional setting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY-WXYIiHWA [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @12:58PM (1 child)
Where the the money come from to pay for this study with its deeply insightful and original discoveries?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @03:38PM
According to the paper, it comes from the Wellcome Trust, which is a private charity that provides money for medical studies, among other things. And as much as people make fun of studies like this, the fact is that a lot of insurance won't cover dead-obvious-can't-believe-people-actually-had-to-study-this, treatments because there is no "proof" of effectiveness.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @10:39AM (1 child)
Somebody get Aristarchus some Unisom (tm).
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday September 10 2017, @08:58PM
Diphenhydramine is an anti-cholinergic. It's a good way to get a ripping-strong case of early-onset dementia. I'd occasionally been using Benadryl, which is literally just half a Unisom per dose, as a sleep aid, but cut it out right quick after leaning that. Valerian is good for sleeping.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday September 10 2017, @08:17AM
Too bad the paranoid won't accept the treatment against insomnia since they suspect another nefarious goal behind it. :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by arulatas on Monday September 11 2017, @03:55PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykdmnS-MtXI [youtube.com]
----- 10 turns around
(Score: 2) by KritonK on Tuesday September 12 2017, @09:18AM
Just because you're sleeping properly, doesn't mean that they're not out to get you.