Keeping TV on while sleeping = Depression??

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Wow! While I always knew keeping the TV on was never a great thing, I think this may be causing some of my issues here... I like to watch TV before bed, so now I'm going to use a sleep timer so it turns off within an hour or so. I do have depression and as many of you may know, I recently posted a thread about being tired all the time. Well I ALWAYS sleep with the TV on! Here's a link to the article. What do you all think?

http://news.discovery.com/human/depression-night-light-exposure.html

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I learned on my own that sleeping with the TV or radio on meant I would be tired and cranky the next day with a good dose of intense anxiety to boot. I almost never do it unless I fall asleep with it on by mistake.

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Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.

My dh and the D isn't dear in this issue, will fall asleep with the tv on. I have been turning it off for years. Don't even get me started...

I do agree. On the nights it is off at a human hour he is more pleasant (and so am I). It's left on all night, it doesn't feel like a true sleep.

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Specializes in Peds Medical Floor.

I love sleeping with the TV or music on. I sleep better actually.

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hmm this definitely does not apply to everyone. I'm very prone to nightmares so I have to sleep with my t.v on!! if anyone turns off my t.v i wake up instantly and cannot go to sleep unless it is on!!...i'm yet to suffer from depression lol

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Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.

I used to have to sleep with the TV on because the ex girlfriend thought the room was too dark without it....

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Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
I love sleeping with the TV or music on. I sleep better actually.

I have a white noise machine that I love for that reason. It drowns out the tv!:lol2:

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Specializes in Emergency Medicine.
I love sleeping with the TV or music on. I sleep better actually.

I got rid of my TV back in '06 but sleep with music on.

Just a little background music to drown out all the crazy

noises around the house or the neighborhood. Sleep like

a newborn puppy...

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I used to sleep with the TV on, but read about how horrible it was for you. Now if I need to really relax and drown out other noises, I go to the RainyMood website. (I would post the link, but I don't know if it would be considered advertising) Anyway, it's a 30-minute loop of rain noises. Sometimes, if I'm feeling extra fancy, I'll also pull up a Youtube video of a fire burning in a fireplace and make it fullscreen. I am a dork, lol.

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raindrop music, fireplaces, relaxing the auditory and visual senses. sounds very relaxing i may try this...i am also unusual lol

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I sleep with the tv on plus the air conditioner (for The noise even when it's cold) plus a white noise machine lol n I can't have it any other way!

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Specializes in LTC, Pediatrics, Renal Med/Surg.

I have to sleep in silence or as close to it as I can get.

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