Insomnia doubles suicide risk, study finds.
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LONDON - People who suffer chronic sleep problems are more likely to think about suicide or actually try to kill themselves, researchers said on Wednesday.
The more types of sleep disturbances a person had — such as waking up too early, difficulty falling asleep or lying awake at night — upped the odds of suicidal thoughts, planning a suicide, or attempting it, researchers told a conference.
"People with two or more sleep symptoms were 2.6 times more likely to report a suicide attempt than those without any insomnia complaints," Marcin Wojnar, a researcher at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and the Medical University of Poland, who led the study, said in a statement.
"This has implications for public health as the presence of sleep problems should alert doctors to assess such patients for a heightened risk of suicide even if they don't have a psychiatric condition."
According to the World Health Organization, some 877,000 people worldwide kill themselves each year. For every suicide death, anywhere from 10 to 40 attempts are made, the U.N. agency estimates.
The more types of sleep disturbances a person had — such as waking up too early, difficulty falling asleep or lying awake at night — upped the odds of suicidal thoughts, planning a suicide, or attempting it, researchers told a conference.
"People with two or more sleep symptoms were 2.6 times more likely to report a suicide attempt than those without any insomnia complaints," Marcin Wojnar, a researcher at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and the Medical University of Poland, who led the study, said in a statement.
"This has implications for public health as the presence of sleep problems should alert doctors to assess such patients for a heightened risk of suicide even if they don't have a psychiatric condition."
According to the World Health Organization, some 877,000 people worldwide kill themselves each year. For every suicide death, anywhere from 10 to 40 attempts are made, the U.N. agency estimates.
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Bigdog_mike
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if I had to break it down, I'd group sleeping into 2 catagories.
1- people who can kinda shut down their brains @ night and drift off to sleep no problem, and
2- people who have what I like to call an overactive brain- and they are always thinking - constantly.#1's sleep no problem, # 2's are up all night, but when the #2's fall asleep, they tend to lucid dream which is very cool!
- 2 years ago
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Bigdog_mike
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QuitItAlready
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Try 4-5 at an average .. Maybe tired people get more depressed ..and that could lead to Suicide attempts?
- 2 years ago
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QuitItAlready
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ClipsFC
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Doctors need to be more in tune with patients sleeping patterns. Most of us do not get the recommended 7-8 hours per night.
- 2 years ago
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