If you have ever lain awake at 3am, mind racing, wondering why you cannot just switch off — and then felt utterly hollow the next day — you already know something about the sleep and depression link, even if you…
About six months ago, my therapist said something that stopped me cold: “Your insomnia isn’t just a symptom of your depression — it may be actively making it worse.” I went home that night, opened my laptop, and fell down…
Three years ago, I was averaging five hours of broken sleep a night and wondering why my anxiety felt completely unmanageable. My therapist kept circling back to the same topic: sleep hygiene mental health improvement. She said it like it…
Two weeks into a work trip across three time zones, something shifted in me that I could not immediately name. I was eating fine, exercising when I could, staying connected with people I love. But a flat, gray feeling had…