I've been sleeping a lot this past year, but the year prior to that, I was only sleeping a full night about three nights a week (full night being roughly 8 hours), and sleeping half nights two times a week (3-4 hours), and skipping at least one night's rest every week. That didn't work out real well for me, though. I started getting really irritable and frustrated with people after about 6 months like that.
I wonder if the health risk has to do more with depression? As an adult, I've always needed a lot of sleep not necessarily because of depression but maybe because I'm sensitive and sleep helps me process a lot of things good or bad.
As with all things, health related. Sadly. They say in the article that they're not sure whether it's cause or effect... they just demonstrated a correlation. It could be that unhealthy people need more sleep, not that excess sleep causes poor health.
It's odd that that "researches" are changing their tune on this subject. It use to be...anything less than 8 hours was bad for you. Personally I don't think it's the amount as much as the quality that is important.
I've been sleeping a lot this past year, but the year prior to that, I was only sleeping a full night about three nights a week (full night being roughly 8 hours), and sleeping half nights two times a week (3-4 hours), and skipping at least one night's rest every week. That didn't work out real well for me, though. I started getting really irritable and frustrated with people after about 6 months like that.
I wonder if the health risk has to do more with depression? As an adult, I've always needed a lot of sleep not necessarily because of depression but maybe because I'm sensitive and sleep helps me process a lot of things good or bad.
As with all things, health related. Sadly. They say in the article that they're not sure whether it's cause or effect... they just demonstrated a correlation. It could be that unhealthy people need more sleep, not that excess sleep causes poor health.
It's odd that that "researches" are changing their tune on this subject. It use to be...anything less than 8 hours was bad for you. Personally I don't think it's the amount as much as the quality that is important.