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Dr. Matt Walker: The Science & Practice of Perfecting Your Sleep
Huberman Lab
Can Someone Sleep Too Much?
There is a condition that we call hypersomnia, where people have either a very high sleep need or they are very sleepy during the day. One of the places where we've often seen hypersomnia believed to manifest is in depression. But if you look at some of those stidees it turns out it looks more as though those people are simply reporting being in bed longer but not necessarily sleeping longer. And that fits very well with one of the profile that we know of depression, which is anadonia. You don't get pleasure from normally pleasurable things, so you just don't want to go out into the world because you're depressed.
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