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Depression shapes how millions sleep, wake, and drink their coffee — essays, clinical research, and field notes on fatigue, anhedonia, SSRIs, and morning routines.
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Sleep Apnea
July 2026 · 9 min
Sleep Apnea and Depression: Two Explanations for One Bad Year
A man in his fifties has been treated for depression for two years. Two antidepressants, one dose increase, some talk therapy. He is better than he was, but not well.
By Diane Norwood · Read →
Sleep Apnea
July 2026 · 6 min
Sleep Apnea and Depression: How a Diagnosis Kept Getting Missed
A man in his fifties spends four years on antidepressants. Two SSRIs, then a switch, then an augmenting agent. He is tired in a way sleep does not fix.
By Claire Munroe · Read →
Sleep Apnea
May 2026 · 10 min
Depression and Sleep: The Case for Checking Your Breathing First
A meaningful fraction of what gets diagnosed as treatment-resistant depression isn't depression in the clean clinical sense. It's a breathing problem wearing depression's clothes.
By Rachel Stanton · Read →
Sleep
April 2026 · 4 min
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.
By James Hartley · Read →
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