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Sleep and mental health
CDC's sleep hub and the AASM consumer site on a variable that affects almost every psychiatric condition in both directions.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention6 min readSelected and edited by Dean ShabanAdded
Sleep is not a peripheral lifestyle factor in mental health; it is among the most reliable bidirectional variables in psychiatry. CDC's sleep pages cover the basics (duration, hygiene, when to seek care) and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine's SleepEducation.org goes deeper on insomnia, sleep apnea, and CBT-I (cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia), which is the first-line treatment for chronic insomnia.
If sleep has been the durable problem under everything else, CBT-I is the single highest-yield intervention to look for.
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