Sleep after Sex & School But Not Trauma
If you’ve had a traumatic day, sleeping it off might not be the best idea.
New research out of the Medical University of Lübeck
in Germany suggests that sleep following learning could bolster
long-term retention of emotional memories. Therefore, a nap after
trauma could increase the likelihood that a patient will develop
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the psychological fallout of a
horrific experience. Symptoms of PTSD include nightmares, flashbacks,
emotional detachment, clinical depression and anxiety. The research is
published in the journal Biological Psychiatry.
Read the rest of this article here.
And if you’ve had a traumatic day, cross crawl twenty times to get your brains unscrambled, then do your TAT, EFT, ZPoint or other stress-reliever process until your emotional load is zero, THEN sleep.
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