Your social life is also affected by lack of sleep: team communication in the workplace and group decision-making are impaired, while hostility and even unethical workplace behavior increase.22 Your emotional life is impacted, too: depression and sleep difficulties are closely intertwined, each exacerbating the other,23 and insomnia predicts suicidal thoughts, even in people without depression.24 Anxiety and sleep, too, are closely related and mutually causal.25 If you struggle with depression, anxiety, or other mental health issues—which more than twice as many women as men do (a conservative
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