Posted by SLS on November 9, 2011, at 7:30:14
In reply to Re: Anxiety or Comorbid depression Linked to Insomnia » Phillipa, posted by 49er on November 8, 2011, at 4:54:03
> Please don't misunderstand me as I realize some cases of insomnia are definitely psychological.
I don't understand what you mean by "psychological".
Would the insomnia that is intrinsic to some types of Major Depressive Disorder qualify as being psychological?
MDD becomes increasingly biologically-driven when the illness takes a chronic or recurrent course. As time passes, the onset and persistence of depressive episodes becomes autonomous and is no longer linked to psychosocial stress.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10910786
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21334286
Is the depression described in these citations "psychological" according to your definition?
I don't have a problem with models of MDD and BD that incorporate the role of psychosocial stress in the onset of these illnesses. However, I am dismayed whenever it is declared that these illnesses are not biological in nature, especially in chronic and recurrent cases. Since most people who post on the Medication board of Psycho-Babble have been depressed chronically or recurrently, I don't think it is productive to categorize their illnesses as being psychological. I hope this was not your intention.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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