Combination Depression and Sleep Apnea?
Loading ...For over two decades clinical studies have been conducted which suggest a relationship between depression and OSA (obstructive sleep apnea).
But before you get more depressed .. (!) .. the number of people with both (including a major depressive disorder) seems to be pretty low, I would say, very low - if you rely on some statistics…
Here is some information from Stanford University …
http://ukpmc.ac.uk/articlerender.cgi?artid=404521
Here it quotes the numbers of 800 people out of 100,000 (0.8% – or less than 1%) who have both a breathing related sleep disorder and a major depressive disorder.
What might be interesting to some readers, is that of the people presenting with one or other of these 2 disorders – 20% of them will actually have both the disorders – which IS actually significant.
Maurice M Ohayon at Stanford University has written many papers on such topics – for the enthusiasts…
But just to find people to chat with, receive comfort from, and learn you might ‘enjoy’ this forum for people who have sleep apnea: http://www.sleepguide.com/
And here’s a page from that site specifically commenting on depression and sleep apnea: http://www.sleepguide.com/forum/topics/is-it-common-for-people-with
There is a lot of information available on the internet about sleep apnea, thankfully.
For help with depression visit our page http://www.sleeplessnomore.com/catalog/depression.html
And also see my recent post Omega 3 for Depression and ADHD.
Regards
Elizabeth
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Hi Elizabeth,
I have had a mild case of insomnia and so has a close friend of mine. a appreciate your study and I am a big fan of using natural sleep rememdies to help me get to bed and they work like a charm!
I work long hours and often find it hard to get realxed and fall asleep.
I am currently using a pillow mist spray from Sarong Gaia sleep remedies which have been extracted from the Himalayan Mountains and they work like a charm. I highly reccomend it!
Thanks for your articles.
Stefanie
I am a victim of this condition, snoring and sleep apnoea. I struggled with this for quite a few years. It got really bad about three years ago. The last apnoea I had scared the hell out of me. My doctor recomended that I use a CPAP machine. CPAP and I do not seem to agree, my struggle continued, until I came up with my own invention,a inclined, lateral positional pillow. I am able to control my snoring by about 80% and I cannot recall having even a mild apnoea in the last 18 months.