Can resetting the body clock help with depression?

Metadata

• Title: Can resetting the body clock help with depression?
• URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02211-y

Highlights & Notes

• “Epidemiological studies suggest that night-shift workers are at [approximately] 25% to 40% higher risk for mental illnesses, including depression and anxiety,”
• participants’ mood plummeted, and failed to improve during the four days they spent on the reversed schedule
• circadian misalignment has negative effects even on long-time shift workers
• sleep problems and circadian disruption are associated with depression
• more than 90% of people with depression have sleep problems
• Poor sleep turns out to be not only a symptom but also a predictor.
• sleep has a protective effect: improving sleep can help to prevent depression in adults.
• light also has a direct antidepressant effect, through the stimulation of mood-regulating brain centers
• In the early 1970s, researchers realized that keeping people with depression awake for 36 hours often provided immediate relief of their symptoms.
• effects of sleep deprivation that were nothing short of “miraculous”.
• combining sleep deprivation with light therapy and what researchers call sleep phase advance — essentially, going to bed earlier. In a 2009 study, a group including Bunney showed that half of people who underwent this routine remained in remission after seven weeks7.
• existing treatments for bipolar disorder, lithium and valproic acid, both affect circadian rhythms
• sleep deprivation and the rapid-acting antidepressant ketamine both cause similar changes in the expression of circadian-related genes
• eating in synch with typical mealtimes, even if a person’s sleep schedule is altered, can prevent the adverse effects of circadian disruption on mood.
• recommendations for better ‘light hygiene’, such as getting outside during the morning and limiting artificial light in the hours before bed in the evening

Or republicans for that matter, who were voted in for decades to stand up for peoples rights and stand against these types of things, and instead stayed silent as rights were stripped away and did nothing to stand against it.

What does one do, when nobody who was in power and was elected to stand against these types of tyranny, does so? Throughout my life, people just said to elect someone different.

But this whole incident has made something pretty clear. We seemingly don't have any principled representatives anymore.

The era of toxic masculinity, where men actually put their life/liberty on the line and stood for unmovable principles and virtues, seems gone. People in todays culture mainly only stand up, if they know there will be no repercussions for doing so.

Who does one go to, to ask for help, when there seemingly are no(or few) moral representatives that will stand up for our rights, against the overwhelming government machine?

Unfortunately, again Mr. Prager lays blame on the left. While the left was the worst offenders pushing this, i don't recall many on the right resisting or doing much about it.

When the left sees perceived injustice, they organize, they print booklets for distribution letting everyone know their legal and constitutional rights. They educate their people with how to resist and effect change.

I don't recall massive pushes of educating the population of their rights, or what the suppressed scientific studies coming out of Israel & Europe were actually showing.

The right's response seemed to just be to tell people to move to a little less restrictive place run by them, rather than encouraging people to resist unjust laws/edicts/rules.

Neither side responded well to this.

These 'snitch-lines' are bad, but are less scary than the 4-5 others that have been setup in recent years to report people for 'wrong-think' to the government. [1] [2]

Also where children are pressured by the authorities & their school teachers to report violations by their family, which was also done similarly in WW2. [1] [2]

I'd argue they did have a choice, especially if they did so as a collective group nothing could really be done to them, and I'd argue they made the wrong choice.

Also public servants give an oath to uphold the constitution against enemies both foreign AND domestic. They are not duty-bound to follow illegal, immoral, or unconstitutional orders. In fact, they are expected, and sometimes legally required, to refuse to obey them.

Also, "I didn't have a choice but to go along with it" was not a valid defense post WW2.

Actually, Fox News was largely just as complicit as most other media in suppressing scientific studies and information that did not match the official narrative.

Many of the 'laws' were nothing but edicts that mayors, governors, unelected bureaucrats, and agencies did not actually have the legal authority to enact or the scientific data to back up the respective decisions/restrictions.

Police departments, easily fell for and went along with brutally enforcing the 'emergency actions' without question or bothering to ask "do the mayors have the authority to require/direct those actions?", or if they were even moral actions that they were being told to carry out.

It is down right scary, that there were no objectors of conscious, or police departments standing up against the authorities and standing with the people/protecting them from the authoritarianism.

Over the decades, many on the left have called the police, authoritarian. People who pointed to how many in such institutions abuse their power or go on ego driven power trips. Perchance just dismissing their calls as foolish all of these years, and always just supporting the blue was a bad idea.

As with how easily they, as an entire institution, slid into that very authoritarian role, and away from "serving & protecting" the population is down right terrifying and foreshadows a potential very dark future ahead of us under similar circumstances.

Almost all freedoms were restricted as the article points out as of it's writing in early 2020. After vaccines became available in late 2020, the government did indeed restrict freedoms further specifically targeting travel, entry, shopping, gathering, and working for those who were not vaccinated.

In addition, both state and federal government officials did restrict freedom of speech by dictating to big tech who they wanted censored/blocked/banned and what ideas and scientific studies they wanted suppressed.[1] [2] [3]