Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams
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“no,” you are not alone. More than a third of adults in many developed nations fail to obtain the recommended seven to nine hours of nightly sleep.fn1
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sleep disruption further contributes to all major psychiatric conditions, including depression, anxiety, and suicidality.
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the shorter your sleep, the shorter your life span.
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human beings are in fact the only species that will deliberately deprive themselves of sleep without legitimate gain.
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mistake this as a plea to doctors to start prescribing more sleeping pills—quite the opposite, in fact,