Sleep-quality symptoms

The link between bad sleep and poor mental health is well documented, but a new study – the largest of its kind – has emphasised this connection further still. ‘The differences in sleep patterns indicated worse sleep quality for participants with a previous diagnosis of mental illness, including waking up more often and for longer periods of time,’ said senior author Dr Shreejoy Tripathy, an independent scientist at the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Canada’s largest mental health teaching hospital. While trying to address sleep is one thing, it shows that tackling mental health at its root, first, is crucial.