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From Cathy Wong, N.D., on About.com:
"...early morning awakening or sleep maintenance insomnia. These
two types of insomnia are sometimes associated with depression."
http://altmedicine.about.com/cs/conditionsitoq/a/Insomnia.htm
From Dr R H McAllister-Williams, Carolyn Hughes and the Newcastle
Affective Disorders Group, on NetDoctor.co.uk:
"People with depression can have many types of sleep problems.
Generally, these involve getting less sleep than usual and include:
- difficulty getting off to sleep - often because of lying in bed
with thoughts going round in your head.
- frequently waking up during the night.
- waking early in the morning and not being able to get back to sleep."
http://community.netdoktor.com/ccs/uk/depression/coping/social/article.jsp?articleIdent=uk.depression.coping.social.uk_depression_article_5048
From The Hamilton Rating Scale For Depression PDF file by
GlaxoWellcome on the University of Massachussetts HealthNet:
"INSOMNIA LATE [latter part of the sleep cycle]
0=No Difficulty
1=Waking in early hours of the morning but goes back to sleep
2=Unable to fall asleep again if he gets out of bed"
[2 being a higher score indicating more severe depression]
http://healthnet.umassmed.edu/mhealth/HAMD.pdf
From the Editorial Team on the Medic8 Family Health Guide:
"Insomnia can take several different forms such as difficulty
falling asleep, non-refreshing sleep, or waking too early in
the morning
Causes of persisting insomnia include environmental noise,
shift work, stress and depression."
http://www.medic8.com/healthguide/articles/insomnia.html
From material provided by the Mental Health Foundation of
New Zealand, on the Everybody website:
"Physical symptoms of postnatal depression
- Change in sleeping patterns. The most common change is reduced
sleep, with difficulty getting to sleep, disturbed sleep, and/or
waking early and being unable to return to sleep."
http://www.everybody.co.nz/page-5e0a04d5-df69-4be3-bc11-9d8a54a86378.aspx
From an article by Dr Susan Aldridge on the MaleHealth Forum:
"If you are experiencing five or more of the following symptoms,
you may be suffering from depression.
[...]
- Sleeping difficulties - either problems in dropping off, or
waking early and being unable to get back to sleep."
http://www.malehealth.co.uk/userpage1.cfm?item_id=120
From Patient UK:
"The following is a list of common symptoms of depression. It
is unusual to have them all, but several usually develop if
you have depression.
[...]
- Sleeping problems:
- sometimes difficulty in getting off to sleep.
- sometimes waking early and unable to get back to sleep.
- sleeping too much sometimes occurs."
http://www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/23068720/
From the University of Cambridge Counselling Service:
"If you have been suffering from insomnia for some time you may
be depressed. Signs to look out for are:
- waking in the middle of the night or early morning and unable
to get back to sleep"
http://www.counselling.cam.ac.uk/insom.html
From WrongDiagnosis.com:
"List of symptoms of Depression: The list of signs and symptoms
mentioned in various sources for Depression includes those
listed below.
[...]
- Sleep pattern changes
- Difficulty sleeping
- Oversleeping
- Waking too early"
http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/d/depression/symptoms.htm
From the University of Huddersfield Counselling Service:
"Clinically depressed people suffer from sleep disruption
(usually waking early when still tired)..."
http://www.hud.ac.uk/stu_svc/counselling/depression01.htm
From the Well Man website, an article adapted from 'A Good
Night's Sleep? Merely a Dream for Millions' by Jan Ehrman:
"...'early morning awakenings' may be a sign of depression
or other treatable emotional disorder"
[...]
"Sometimes people who are depressed may fall asleep easily,
then wake up in the early hours of the morning, unable to
fall asleep again."
http://www.wellman.org.au/sleep.html
From the Univerity of Nottingham Counselling Department, a PDF:
"A person who is depressed may have some of the following symptoms:
[...]
- Difficulty in getting to sleep, waking early in the morning"
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/counselling/leaflets/depression.pdf
From the infra|psych website:
"Sleep disturbance can be associated with depression (especially
the early morning waking pattern)..."
http://www.infrapsych.com/root/1033/General/General_HealthySleeping.htm
From a leaflet on depression by the Royal College of Psychiatrists:
"Physical Symptoms:
- Unable to get to sleep, waking early and during the night"
http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/info/help/mbs/index.asp
From an article on depression on BrainExplorer.org:
"Biological [symptoms]
- sleep disturbance (usually waking early and being unable
to get back to sleep)"
http://www.brainexplorer.org/depression/Depression_Diagnosis.shtml
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