Sleep deprivation relieves depression?

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Have you ever heard of or experienced this? Sleep deprivation can lift your mood in the shortrun. I've experienced it. I didn't even realize how depressed I was normally before I started pulling all nighters.

Apparently sleep deprivation can increase dopamine levels temporarily.

I notice that after a night without sleep I feel better and more sensitive to touch. I got a pedicure after 30 hours without sleep and it was amazing. I felt it so much more intensely than usual and I loved that I could actually feel something to a satisfying level. Yes. I'm not dead anymore. I can feel something. Thank God.

It's not a great self-medication. If you stay up too long you'll probably crash. I personally suffer cognitive impairments along with my lifted mood. My ability to pay attention drops significantly. I'm impaired in that state but it still feels good.


I'm not sure where I'm going with this. I haven't found a thread about this so I thought I'd start one. Sleep deprivation can provide temporary relief from depression.

no they ALWAYS make me worse. It makes sense, I have high dopamine levels. So if sleep deprivation increases dopamine, no wonder I feel heaps worse.

Yeah, in the short run.

But then you feel awful.

I don't really find that to be true.

yes actually.

l've found l can actually focus better sometimes. lt's the extra adrenaline your body produces to try and keep you awake.

l wish caffeine worked the same way. l've really felt ALMOST normal while sleep deprived too and have found l enjoyed social interaction more and it felt more natural o_O

But there's really no way for me to regulate this, l crash eventually and just become dysfunctional.l'd say less sleep every night would be an option but l just get physically rundown eventually.

i cant notice anything but an intense need to hit the sack.

It gives me migraines.

Sleep deprivation just makes me want to sleep.

For one day or so I might not have time to focus on how depressed I am because I'm so tired, but eventually I just get even more depressed because in addition to being depressed I would then also be tired in addition to being depressed.

i went 38 hours without sleep last year and after my 24th hour of being up i simply did not care for anything, i was relaxed in a way that depression dosent seem to occur

There have been scientific studies done that the brain gets an extra dose of hormones when one is sleep deprived which make it much more receptive to pleasure. But that doesn't mean that you feel good when you're sleep deprived. It's your brain's way of compensating.

Hmmmmmmm, perhaps this was why I was so ineggsplicably happy in college.

Ive never seen that way. In nights i cant sleep and i hate it because in the morning i just want to go to bed but cant

Its not the period when you are awake this problematic, its the time when you have to wake up. I am a serial night owl and have a huge battle getting going in the morning. Chemically, mornings are not good for me.

A day of sleep deprivation not only is a very fast (albeit short) anti-depressant, it also is notorious for inducing mania.

If I'm depressed all I want to do is sleep. Sleeping doesn't get me anywhere though... So presumably yes I think so.

sleep deprivation can cause diabetes.