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How good sleep is when you’re a bit het up if his wife hadn’t told him to snap out of it and go wash his hands. If everything does look less terrible in the morning, it’s thanks to noradrenaline and friends. sleep heals emotional distress, he’d probably A recent perspective piece in Nature proposes a model for exactly how sleep – not just any old nap but a decent chunk of REM soothes a distressed mind. They concluded that the way certain neurotransmitters are regulated in various sleep modes permits the brain to reorganize the synaptic connections that form memories without activating the autonomic nervous system and its fight-or-flight response to upsetting thoughts. When we are awake, or when we fail to get proper sleep, there is no opportunity to process and take the edge off emotional memories without causing our hearts to race, cheeks to flush and all the other exciting ways our amygdales can make our distress tangible. good sleeping individual, they still have some sleep disturbances but CBTI is enabling them to better deal with them.” insomnia or other sleep disorders where people wake up from sleep a lot, we see an increased risk of developing mental health problems bad mental health stemming from insomnia, the authors say “The model generates testable hypotheses for how failed sleep-dependent adaptation to emotional distress is key to mental disorders, notably disorders of anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress with the common aetiologia of insomnia