"Bad Sleep:: -1"
It's a huge risk for suicide.
The Frontier Psychiatrists is proud to be just behind the vanguard1 of health-themed somewhat-satire publications 2023 featured an array of excellent articles, for a general audience, about drugs and their history.2. This year? I am taking a crack— in a reassuring format—for things that are not pharmaceuticals.
Today: Bad Sleep... Is it a valid clinical target worth resolving? In computer science speak, the title of this article is a joke…it refers to the Python search search for the liminal space that is the furthest away from the initial search term. In essence, the opposite, conceptually, of Bad Sleep in this case3.
“Most of us will spend approximately one-third of our lives asleep. Despite the large proportion of our existence that it consumes, there remains little scientific consensus regarding the actual function that sleep provides.”
Bad Sleep profoundly affects grumpiness and cognition.4