yuletide reveal

[loneraven]

Seriously, what is it like to be able to sleep at night? I'm genuinely interested in knowing. What do you do with all that spare time?

(On a related note, this story made me FURIOUS, quite possibly irrationally, but still, how dare they basically imply that depression is your fault for going to bed too late. If you just went to bed early you'd be

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[emerald_embers]

Ugh, these "Well, if you hadn't done _blah_ then you wouldn't have this condition!" implications always drive me up the wall. I've seen dyspraxia blamed on everything from eating wheat and dairy products to falling over too much as a child, it's silly

[loneraven]

I mean, I can't sleep at night, so I tend to lie in bed for hours tossing and turning, and then either sleep in to make up the sleep or nap, or catch up on it somehow later - so I spend twice the number of hours in bed! Not always true, because sometimes you soldier on without the sleep, but as a general thing. And also I lose time in being, basically, too tired to do anything but stare into space.

[lilka]

*reads BBC article* *sighs* You know, sometimes I want to write 'correlation does not equal causation' on a stick and beat people over the head with it. Many, many people.

And thanks again for Prawn Crackers, it was genuinely delightful :)

[loneraven]

You're very welcome! I was pretty sure you would guess it was me. But it was great fun to write!

[thunderemerald]

Ah ah ah, I love the Slings & Arrows fic! How lovely. Although the thought of Kate in Passchendaele makes my head hurt with meta, a little. ;)

[loneraven]

Thanks, dude. I couldn't resist the shout-out. :P

[walkertxkitty]

I wouldn't know about sleeping at night: my body rhythms carried over from college and I tend to stay up late myself. When I do sleep, it's interrupted. I wake several times a night.

No, going to bed earlier won't fix depression. They need to STFU about that. When I'm depressed, I have the opposite problem: getting out of bed to do ANYTHING is an issue.

Hmmm, good stuff to read *waddles off to do so*

[jacinthsong]

Ditto - when depressed, my issue is hypersomnia and early morning waking, so if I can actually be alert and feel like doing anything at any point of the day/night then YES I will probably jump on that.

[jacinthsong]

Also! I love the Discworld fic a whole lot. YAY.

[loneraven]

*squees* yaaaay, I am glad.

[loneraven]

It is a tiring one, yes. But not tiring ENOUGH. :P