{"id":946712,"date":"2026-10-26T08:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T08:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/946712\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T08:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T08:30:09","slug":"can-a-malfunctiong-body-clock-cause-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/946712\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a malfunctiong body clock cause depression?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPsychiatrists are now suggesting that upset circadian rhythms could be a root reason for\u00a0depression.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our circadian rhythms are your body&#8217;s 24-hour cycle or biological clock. A disruption\u00a0in these cycles causes more than the reasonable amount of difficulties sleeping and we slip into a jet-lag- like lack-of-sleep situation that brings on what is being termed &#8216;circadian depression&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>These findings, which were published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, are the results of a large nationwide ongoing Australian Genetics of Depression Study, looking at a cohort of over 11,000: &#8216;Participants were classified as having a &#8216;circadian&#8217; or &#8216;non-circadian&#8217; subtype of depression on the basis of meeting criteria for at least three binary circadian-associated features: social jetlag, seasonality, delayed sleep midpoint, evening chronotype, morning tiredness and hypersomnia&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>That means as many as one in four might be suffering this believed &#8216;circadian depression&#8217; that is caused by disturbances in the internal body clock that can disturb the person&#8217;s mental makeup.<\/p>\n<p>Those in the grip of circadian depression had symptoms like uneven\u00a0sleep, poor energy levels and less day-time physical activity and this lead to a worse form of depression, from a younger age, and it affected females worse and could not be treated easily by the usual antidepressants.<\/p>\n<p>Causes of circadian rhythm upsets can be wide-ranging right from, according to leading US medical centre, Cleveland Clinic, brain and vision issues to problems with work schedules and travel through different time zones.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Psychiatrists are now suggesting that upset circadian rhythms could be a root reason for\u00a0depression.\u00a0 Our circadian rhythms are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[879,49,48,2312,84,7233,2977,279124,7230,393,394,23014,279123],"class_list":["post-946712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-columns","tag-health","tag-india-news","tag-interviews","tag-live-commentary","tag-live-updates","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-news-india","tag-rediff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}