BZD Improved Sleep Architecture w/SSRI Treatment?

Posted by fachad on April 14, 2002, at 19:57:47

Quite a bit is made here of the fact that benzos disturb sleep architecture.
Another less talked about item is that SSRIs wreck havoc on sleep architecture. This does not abate, but rather it continues for the duration of SSRI therapy.
I'm wondering if the BZD disrupted sleep architecture is still better and closer to natural sleep architecture than the SSRI induced sleep disturbances.
To me, it seems like there is a continuum from natural, perfect sleep to horrifically disrupted sleep, and that it goes something like this, from best to worse:
1. Natural sleep (best)
2. Benzo disturbed sleep (better than #3)
3. SSRI wrecked sleep + benzos (better than #4)
4. SSRI wrecked sleep (worst)
Of course the only way to verify this would be to do a PSG sleep study, but it's how it seems subjectiely to me.

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BZD Improved Sleep Architecture w/SSRI Treatment? fachad 4/14/02
Re: BZD Improved Sleep Architecture w/SSRI Treatment? alan 4/14/02
Re: BZD Improved Sleep Architecture w/SSRI Treatment? » fachad Ritch 4/15/02
Marketing Hype and Specificity of Drug Treatments » alan fachad 4/15/02
Re: I am in the same boat too... » fachad jay 4/15/02
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Re: Marketing Hype and Specificity of Drug Treatments » fachad Elizabeth 4/16/02
Re: Marketing Hype and Specificity of Drug Treatments » Elizabeth alan 4/17/02
Re: Marketing Hype and Specificity of Drug Treatments » alan Elizabeth 4/19/02
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