The first evidence that sleep deprivation has a neurological link to anxiety, depression and other psychiatric disorders, has been published in the October edition of the journal Current Biology. The need for sleep is best illustrated by what happens to us when we are deprived of it. A go...
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Plea for experts to warn bushfire fighters in Australia
Kez
Saturday, February 14, 2009 at 03:19 PM
Can someone in authority about sleep deprivation please issue a public warning about these studies to the country fire authority in Victoria, Australia and our political leaders? Kevin Rudd is our national Prime Minister, and Mr Brumby is our state level Premier. All fire fighters, and residents near bushfires on high alert for days, in Victoria, need to be warned that if they dont get some sleep they will become dysfunctional/emotional and exhibit impaired judgement (especially like a drunk person, who will lose self awareness and will not even accept they are impaired). This is an urgent request, because there are still 21 fires burning, some out of control, and we seem to have a serial arsonist or five that keeps lighting fires everywhere. Families will be splitting up en-masse and children scarred for life in more than many ways, en masse too. There is an urgency here because with impaired judgement comes an inability to think intelligently to escape fire. I have noticed that many people (including my brother with his three kids) will wait until ember attack occurs, or until they see smoke before they even think about evacuating and do not know that embers can travel up to 20 kms in high winds. By then it is often too late and they will be potentially die, or suffer severe burns. Fire travels huge distances in high winds and hot weather. Please help our community get through this by informing our fire fighters, police and all people about our likely impairment, emotionality and anger if they stay awake around the clock. In addition to the anger we all are starting to feel due to grief about lost ones, caused by arsonists, this feels like the terrorism of 9/11. PLEASE PLEASE WARN EVERYONE TO SLEEP AND RELAX (and get fire crews replaced with fresh fire fighters at appropriate times according to the vital information in these studies). Thankyou! XX XX Kez
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sleep deprivation and children
awake!
Sunday, June 07, 2009 at 12:16 AM
Is this possible even when a person has a child and could it be related to post-pardum depression? IE if a person does not sleep for more than 2 hours at a time for over two years, is this applicable?
Can someone in authority about sleep deprivation please issue a public warning about these studies to the country fire authority in Victoria, Australia and our political leaders? Kevin Rudd is our national Prime Minister, and Mr Brumby is our state level Premier. All fire fighters, and residents near bushfires on high alert for days, in Victoria, need to be warned that if they dont get some sleep they will become dysfunctional/emotional and exhibit impaired judgement (especially like a drunk person, who will lose self awareness and will not even accept they are impaired). This is an urgent request, because there are still 21 fires burning, some out of control, and we seem to have a serial arsonist or five that keeps lighting fires everywhere. Families will be splitting up en-masse and children scarred for life in more than many ways, en masse too. There is an urgency here because with impaired judgement comes an inability to think intelligently to escape fire. I have noticed that many people (including my brother with his three kids) will wait until ember attack occurs, or until they see smoke before they even think about evacuating and do not know that embers can travel up to 20 kms in high winds. By then it is often too late and they will be potentially die, or suffer severe burns. Fire travels huge distances in high winds and hot weather. Please help our community get through this by informing our fire fighters, police and all people about our likely impairment, emotionality and anger if they stay awake around the clock. In addition to the anger we all are starting to feel due to grief about lost ones, caused by arsonists, this feels like the terrorism of 9/11. PLEASE PLEASE WARN EVERYONE TO SLEEP AND RELAX (and get fire crews replaced with fresh fire fighters at appropriate times according to the vital information in these studies). Thankyou! XX XX Kez