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There’s a New Type of Depression, and It Could Explain Why You Can’t Sleep at Night

Researchers identified a new subtype of depression linked to disrupted body clocks, irregular sleep patterns, and more severe symptoms.

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If your circadian rhythm is constantly being thrown off by your terrible, no good, absolutely miserable nights of sleep, congratulations, you might also have a whole new kind of depression. It’s called circadian depression, a term coined by researchers at the University of Sydney in Australia, who published their findings in the British Journal of Psychiatry and detailed them in a press release.

The researchers analyzed data from over 11,000 participants with severe or recurrent depression. After a while, the researchers figured these people........

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