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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 read
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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