Suffer from disrupted sleep? You could get suicidal

Suffer from disrupted sleep?

A study has found that staying awake at night or lack of good sleep may increase the risk of suicidal thoughts and attempts.

Finally, respondents said sleep acted as an alternative to suicide, providing an escape from their problems. However, the desire to use sleep as an avoidance tactic led to increased day time sleeping which in turn caused disturbed sleeping patterns — reinforcing the first two pathways, said the paper published in the journal BMJ Open . ‘Our research underscores the importance of restoring healthy sleep in relation to coping with mental health problems, suicidal thoughts and behaviours. Additionally, night time service provision should be a key consideration within suicide prevention strategies, given that this study shows that those who are awake in the night are at an increased risk of suicide,’ said Donna Littlewood, researcher at the University of Manchester. (Read: Why do we have problems with sleep as we grow older?)

Source: IANS

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