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Waking just one hour earlier cuts depression risk by double digits

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It seems like this study shows - rather - that people who wake up an hour earlier have less depression risk by double digits.

This keeps getting posted here, but I feel completely miserable if I have to wake up an hour earlier than normal. It happens much more often than I like and it’s awful.

I'm curious, how do you deal with daylight savings time switches?

I’m not the OP but I’ll tell you how I “deal”: awfully. Takes days if not weeks to get rid of an uncomfortable feeling of anxiety, some undesirable FOMO.

I set my life up as much as possible to wake up whenever I want. So I usually don't notice too much.

It's also bullshit. It's a correlative study being misrepresented to get more clicks.

Having just three extra decimals to your bank account cuts depression risk by triple digits.

Previous discussion of the same study: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27328290

How does this sciencealert type garbage even reach the HN frontpage?

This story is an example of one of the rare few I'd like to open the Mollyguard cage and click the Downvote (on the submission) for.

Law of large numbers. Do what I did and flag it and move on.

More substantively, I agree with other commenters who have said all this shows is that there are people who have lower depression who wake up one hour earlier. Definitely does seem like clickbait.

> Do what I did and flag it and move on.

And yet here you are.

Ironically, the thread is now flagged, which proves my point. I get that it's fun to be snide on the internet, but is that worth it if you end up in the wrong anyways?

If you don't like it, just need not to read -- what was wrong?

I genuinely wonder who benefits from people adapting to wake up (and potentially go to work) earlier.

Maybe early rising is an effect of being emotionally healthy, not a cause. Someone that naturally rises early might be in good emotional shape, but someone that is not healthy will not magically become healthier by just forcing him or herself to rise earlier.

I think we are mixing cause and effect here. It might also not be correlated. I mean, it may well be cultural, to rise earlier when you are feeling fine, but those two facts, early rising and emotional health, might not have a cause and effect relationship at all.

the worst part is that a study like is claimed here would be maybe even possible but is in no way behind that click bait title. to actually prove this a large randomised test group (thousands not hundreds) with no current diagnosable form of depression would have to be followed over a time long enough so a significant part of them are expected to develop depression in the course of the study. 50/50 random individuals are forced to get up earlier or later, just changing sleep pattern of the early risers would destroy comparability. The hard part is properly controlling for compliance, drop outs, spouses and jobs etc. a subject with onset of depression is more likely to drop out when forced to get up uncomfortably early and a subject with a fulfilling demanding job is less likely to be able to continue sleeping long for a long term study etc. The relationship of sleep and depression has been known for decades but to properly study the real causality here is harder than most think.

When I’m able to shift my schedule a couple of hours earlier, I feel happier. Not sure why - maybe because this way I have some free time before kicking off my day and never feel I’m late at the start of the day.

I am in depression since like i was born and at the short period of times when i am out of depression for complicated reasons, i was getting up early nonintentionally.

One hour earlier from what, your normal wake up time? When that becomes your normal wake up time do you get depressed again, lol

On hour earlier than what ? At some point its an infinite loop

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