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But if you look at some of those studies, 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 profiles that we know of depression, which is anhedonia, you don't get pleasure from normally pleasurable things. So you just don't want to go out into the world, you don't want to interact because you're depressed. So what do you do? You just stay in bed?
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one of the aspects one of the features is that you're depressed to the point where you just don't want to interact with the world and what better place to spend if that's your mentality than this thing called bed I just don't want to get out of bed I'm just going to stay here and lie in bed I'm awake I'm not asleep
one of the places where we see quote unquote too much sleep is in the depression literature and it's a condition that we call hypersomnia in other words increased or excessive degrees of sleep
what you clearly find is that people with depression will be in bed for significantly longer periods of time and the inference there and you could argue almost the conflation is that if you're in bed for longer then you're sleeping for longer and therefore depression is a condition of hypersomnia