Less than eight hours sleep linked to anxiety, depression
A new study now suggested that less than eight hours sleep is linked to anxiety and depression.
According to the study, insomniacs are less able to overcome negative thoughts than those who are able to get suf¿cient shut eye which also reduces people’s ability to disengage from negative emotions, the research added
According to study author Professor Meredith Coles from Binghamton University some people have tendencies to have thoughts get stuck in their heads, and their elevated negative thinking makes it dif¿cult for them to disengage with the negative stimuli, deccanchronicle.com reported.
Up to 50 percent of people in US have dif¿culty falling or staying asleep. Anxiety and depression affect around 40 and 16 million adults, respectively, every year in the US.
Researchers analyzed adults with ‘repeated negative thinking’ (RNT) and the results reveal getting insuf¿cient sleep causes people to spend more time looking at emotionally-negative images.
Insomnia also results in sufferers being unable to disengage from the negative pictures they view.
The ¿ndings were published in the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry.