Archive for February 2009

From McMan’s website

“This is how your sleep shapes up during an acute depression episode:
Prolonged sleep latency, reduced total sleep time, reduced sleep efficiency (characterized by intrusions of wakefulness), reduced three and four (deep) sleep, reduced REM latency, and increased REM density. Also – increased body temperature, increased ACTH, cortisol, and cerebral metabolism (in non REM sleep), as [...]

The black dog

I don’t yet know my full opinion of this book featured in the Guardian. Living with a Black Dog.  The book appears to be coming from a future when no one reads more than a few lines at once. These glimpses of the future are always attractive to me.
And of course it hearkens back to [...]