Tag mental health

Deep sleep: one month in

Ancient clock radio

I must say, it’s been a month like any other. Things other than sleep have preoccupied me. Weather. Work. The fam. Yea not in that order. I’ve been observing the No Screens Before Bedtime™ rule pretty religiously. Even to the…

Deep sleep: week two brings ups the average

Garmin Connect sleep chart for week 2 of my experiment

I had some good — for me — ‘deep sleep’ nights this week. On Wednesday night my Garmin recorded 39 minutes of the stuff and I woke up feeling great. Saturday, after a big fat zero, I woke up feeling…

In search of deep sleep: the first week

Does eliminating screen time before bed increase the deep sleep you get?

After one week of eliminating screens before bed, I can confidently hypothesize that ‘other factors’ account for most of my deep sleep deficit. Or, that if screen time before bed is a factor, it will take some time before I’ll…

When it comes to deep sleep, I am in deep trouble

Garmin Connect sleep graph showing too much REM, not enough deep

According to my wearable, I don’t get anywhere near as much deep sleep as I should. And I’m wondering if it affects my mental health. So I’m going to try one thing to see if it helps. I’ve been casually…

Laurie Kingston: That could have been me

The courageous, honest and brilliant Laurie Kingston writes about her experience with depression and anxiety in response to the obituary Andy Jones and Mary-Lynn Bernard’s wrote for their son. My point in sharing all this is to let go of…