Your MENTAL health is so good.
A recent study, published in Nature’s Digital Medicine journal, has been quoted by World Economic Forum (WEF) in their website which suggests that irregular sleeping and waking times increase the risk of developing depression – and could even be more detrimental to mental health than not getting enough sleep.
The amount and quality of sleep a person gets is directly related to their mental health ie; waking up at irregular times during sleep result in bad moods and depression.
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Sleep deprivation is linked to reduced immunity to viruses like the common cold, the report in WEF website says.
Contrary, if you wake up irregularly regular during your sleep time, you are increasing your chances of suffering from not just bad moods, but also depression, says the study conducted by University of Michigan on sleep patterns of 2,000 trainee physicians over a period of 100 days.
The interns were tracked, their sleeping time and other activities, by a smart device on each intern’s wrist.
It also involved late bedtimes, early waking times and large changes in sleeping and waking duration, all of which were found to be detrimental to their mood swings the following day.
The interns also recorded their mood using an app and their ‘before’ and ‘after’ internship results were then compared. Irregular sleeping and waking times increase the risk of developing depression which will lead to mental health than not getting enough sleep, the study concluded.
So the verdict is sleep well without any interruptions!
