My friend with Bipolar mentioned this to me a while ago, but I hadn't tried it yet, and just remembered it. I found some research online and it looks PROMISING. So I am going to try and stay up all night, as I am crashing again at the moment. Not as bad as I used to be, but bad enough that I am not getting up, not feeding myself properly, my stomach is constantly upset and I have no appetite and my mind is crashing.
I'll let you all know if it helps...
https://mosaicscience.com/story/staying-awake-surprisingly-effective-way-treat-depression/
Here is an extract from the site:
"We decided to give them the whole package, and the effect was brilliant," says Benedetti. By the late 1990s, they were routinely treating patients with triple chronotherapy: sleep deprivation, lithium and light. The sleep deprivations would occur every other night for a week, and bright light exposure for 30 minutes each morning would be continued for a further two weeks – a protocol they continue to use to this day. "We can think of it not as sleep-depriving people, but as modifying or enlarging the period of the sleep–wake cycle from 24 to 48 hours," says Benedetti. "People go to bed every two nights, but when they go to bed, they can sleep for as long as they want."
San Raffaele Hospital first introduced triple chronotherapy in 1996. Since then, it has treated close to a thousand patients with bipolar depression – many of whom had failed to respond to antidepressant drugs. The results speak for themselves: according to the most recent data, 70 per cent of people with drug-resistant bipolar depression responded to triple chronotherapy within the first week, and 55 per cent had a sustained improvement in their depression one month later.
And whereas antidepressants – if they work – can take over a month to have an effect, and can increase the risk of suicide in the meantime, chronotherapy usually produces an immediate and persistent decrease in suicidal thoughts, even after just one night of sleep deprivation.
Here's a video on it: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07l4qx5
The doctors in charge of the programme say it helps in about 70 % of patients!!!
One more video here - interesting this one:
A deep biological link between sleep and mood...
I'll let you all know if it helps...
https://mosaicscience.com/story/staying-awake-surprisingly-effective-way-treat-depression/
Here is an extract from the site:
"We decided to give them the whole package, and the effect was brilliant," says Benedetti. By the late 1990s, they were routinely treating patients with triple chronotherapy: sleep deprivation, lithium and light. The sleep deprivations would occur every other night for a week, and bright light exposure for 30 minutes each morning would be continued for a further two weeks – a protocol they continue to use to this day. "We can think of it not as sleep-depriving people, but as modifying or enlarging the period of the sleep–wake cycle from 24 to 48 hours," says Benedetti. "People go to bed every two nights, but when they go to bed, they can sleep for as long as they want."
San Raffaele Hospital first introduced triple chronotherapy in 1996. Since then, it has treated close to a thousand patients with bipolar depression – many of whom had failed to respond to antidepressant drugs. The results speak for themselves: according to the most recent data, 70 per cent of people with drug-resistant bipolar depression responded to triple chronotherapy within the first week, and 55 per cent had a sustained improvement in their depression one month later.
And whereas antidepressants – if they work – can take over a month to have an effect, and can increase the risk of suicide in the meantime, chronotherapy usually produces an immediate and persistent decrease in suicidal thoughts, even after just one night of sleep deprivation.
Here's a video on it: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07l4qx5
The doctors in charge of the programme say it helps in about 70 % of patients!!!
One more video here - interesting this one:
A deep biological link between sleep and mood...
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