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James Hartley
12 pieces published
Shift Work Disorder, Explained: Where It Sits Among the Circadian Rhythm Disorders
There is a particular shade of pre-dawn blue you only see if you are driving home at 4:47 a.m. with a paper cup of bad coffee balanced on your knee.
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A Short History of Sleep: Did Anyone Ever Actually Get Eight Hours?
Did anyone, in any century before our own, reliably sleep eight unbroken hours? It's the question that surfaces at 3:14 a.m., staring at a ceiling, wondering whether the body is broken or whether the…
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Burnout vs. Depression: Why Your Exhaustion Won't Lift After a Weekend Off
On a Saturday in October, a hospice nurse I'll call M. slept eleven hours, woke up, made coffee, and cried into it for no reason she could name. She wasn't sad about anything in particular.
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