New Study Reveals That Curing Insomnia May Be The First Step to Curing Depression

            Curing insomnia may be the first step to effectively treating depression, a new study reveals. Conducted by multiple universities with 60 to 70 subjects in each study, psychiatric researchers have concluded that treating insomnia in people diagnosed with depression will yield a better result of recovery when treated for depression. The link between sleep and mental stability has been a prevalent study for many years now, but it is only recently that the link between sleep and depression was so extensively studied. Depression is the most common mental disorder today and nearly half of those diagnosed with depression are also diagnosed with insomnia. The new study conducted by students at Ryerson University in Toronto and Stanford University in California established that curing insomnia doubled the chance of a person fully recovering from depression. At Ryerson, 87% of the subjects who partook in the experiment saw their depression symptoms disappear steadily after having received treatment for insomnia. The treatment for insomnia is a talk therapy where the ease and importance of sleep is explained to the subjects. They were also encouraged to keep journals to track their sleep pattern  in order to make sure their insomnia was fully treated. The new study could shed light on better treatment methods for depression and highly increase the number of people who are fully cured of depression. Furthermore, the experiment is the stepping stone to researching more about how mental disorders are affected by our sleep patterns. More about the study is set to be revealed later on in 2014.