SarahC comments on Rationality Drugs - Less Wrong

26 Post author: lukeprog 01 October 2011 11:20AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 01 October 2011 04:06:57PM 3 points [-]

I don't think it's everybody -- certainly there are cases of severe depression where the person sleeps 20 hours a day.

Maybe it's more that sleep deprivation can masquerade as depression. That is, if you're tired, slow, unmotivated, hopeless, lethargic, plunged in gloom, and you're sleeping four or five hours a night, your problems might be related to your sleep patterns.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 01 October 2011 09:53:33PM 0 points [-]

Sure, fatigue can cause unhappiness, but I don't think it looks like clinical depression. You seem to be holding yourself up as an example. Did anyone think you clinically depressed when sleep deprived?