IS INSOMNIA A SYMPTOM OF DEPRESSION?
November 20, 2009
If we haven’t slept scrupulously in over a month as well as a alloy prescibed me pills for insomnia. Will he afterwards provide me for basin after a sleeplessness is underneath control. He thinks we might have depression, though he hasn’t finished anything about which yet, will he once I’m means to sleep?
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Insomnia is closely linked with depression…so I’m wondering why your doc isn’t treating the depression first then insomnia …if you still have problems sleeping. Maybe you should ask him about that? Or find another doctor…at least in my eyes he is treating the less severe problem first then…the cause…that doesn’t seem right.
I think a good doctor would focus more on the cause and than the symptom. If it is depression, an anti-depressant and maybe some cognitive therapy will most likely do wonders for sleeping. You won’t need sleep medicine, some of which can be addictive.
Next time you see him, tell him you’d like to focus on the possibility of depression, especially to see if it might be the source of the sleep problem. That’s a completely reasonable thing to ask the doctor to consider and a good one would discuss it with you.
Insomnia is a primary symptom of Atypical Depression (not major or clinical, or bipolar or a-polar or situational depression where oversleeping is more common).
I think it was wise of your doctor to introduce only one new med at a time to your body, that’s the way my doc operates too.
It depends on how you’re responding after you get some good sleep in your system. Lack of sleep can cause symptoms worse than anxiety or depression alone. Lack of sleep can cause psychotic breaks, hallucinations and dissociation + all th symptoms of certain types of depression.
I think your doctor is smart to treat you slowly.
I think according to my knowledge insomnia happens when you are thinking about something you are concerned about ,like you may did sth wrong to someone or if you work did sth wrong at your work,or you may have lost sth,try to remember and you will be alright
Sleeping disturbances either way can be a symptom of depression or anxiety. If you are talking about a regular doctor, go see a psychiatrist instead to get a different viewpoint.