Less screen time and more sleep critical for preventing depression

Re:Less screen time and more sleep critical for preventing d... by Florin_Andrei on Friday November 13, 2020 @03:07PM (#25086834)

You're highlighting the feedback mechanism that this disease uses to maintain itself. The spiral of doom.

Any attempt to break it is beneficial, though it may feel like the opposite is happening.

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Re:Less screen time and more sleep critical for preventing d... by bgroat on Friday November 13, 2020 @03:09PM (#25086862)

I remember once explaining to a friend that depression wasn't really "feeling sad all the time"

It was more like "Emotional AIDS" - it's not that the depression made me sad, it just took away all my emotional immunity/resilience

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Re:Less screen time and more sleep critical for preventing d... by colecut on Friday November 13, 2020 @03:17PM (#25086937)

No idea why this would be downvoted.

I lost my only sibling to an overdose last year.

I lost the mother of my child to cancer in February.

Three days later, my current gf was diagnosed with cancer.

Even when I'm not sad, I'm definitely highly irritable, easily overwhelmed, lack patience...

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