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53 Post author: Yvain 17 July 2011 08:43PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 01 August 2011 07:28:47PM 0 points [-]

Nice! I picked up the same idea some years ago from a therapist who used short-term sleep deprivation to get someone too depressed to do anything at all enough into a manic state to begin real therapy. (Sorry, no citation.) I wonder how sustainable this is, though.