Depression & insomnia - Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine

Acupuncture has been found to alleviate both depression and insomnia.

How Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine can help those suffering insomnia

Depression may cause a person to suffer from insomnia, however insomnia due to depression, termed depressive insomnia in Traditional Chinese Medicine is characterized by difficulty falling asleep, dream disturbed sleep, generalised insomnia and severe emotional fluctuations are also prevalent.

Research has found acupuncture 90% effective in improving total sleep duration and sleep quality for patients with depression. While alleviation of insomnia directly correlated to improvements in the mental and physical health of study participants. Acupuncture treatments lowered relapse rates and produced similar clinical results as antidepressants.

It is important to speak to a healthcare professional before reducing or removing any medications while undergoing acupuncture treatment.

However, it is widely known that Acupuncture can benefit those people who suffer from depression and insomnia by correcting imbalances and releasing blockages of qi energy along the body’s meridian lines.

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What causes depression and insomnia?

Research suggests that certain lifestyle factors may cause depression. Working and living in Perth and other major cities is in itself a source of stress. Being retrenched as Perth's mining boom ends, long term unemployment, living in an abusive relationship, social isolation and general stress and anxiety that is not addressed may all lead to a person suffering depression, which in turn may lead to insomnia.

Insomnia

What keeps one person awake at night may not affect another person in the same way.

You may have no trouble falling asleep, but you may find yourself waking throughout the night.

If you do suffer from insomnia you may benefit from having a regular bedtime routine. While this may not solve the underlying cause of insomnia it may help you gain much needed rest.

Try and go to bed at the same time each night.

Follow the same routine wherever possible.

Avoid or limit the amount of time spent in front of technology before you go to bed - computers, tablets, television and telephones can all impact on the quality of our sleep and may interrupt our sleeping patterns if we have technology in our bedrooms during our sleeping times.

As we said, these may not solve the underlying cause of the problem, it may prevent the insomnia becoming worse.