Anyone with bipolar disorder knows that sleep is a problem. In fact, sleep disturbance is reported during episodes of mania and depression over 90% of the time.For people like me who rapid-cycle, insomnia occurs during episodes always.
100% of the time according to a study from UC Berkeley.Sleep disturbance is the most common predictor of an oncoming episode.
While insomnia hits us with obvious distress, the real culprit may be sleep latency.Sleep latency is the length of time it takes to progress from full-awake to sleep.
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