Yeah, looks interesting. Wikipedia says it's eclectic and uses CBT etc too...
(I personally have found CBT helpful, via books and journalling...)
It would be interesting to learn more about this, yeah. Klaus, what specific changes have you made as a result of this? Less sleep and going to sleep more early, no computer or TV before sleep or...?
The book doesn't have many tips about improving sleep patterns, it just explains what happens with our sleep when we are depressed, like: "why do we don't want to leave bed in the morning but doesn't want to go to bed at night?"
I'm not avoiding to go to sleep anymore at night, I used to do that due to "manic" episodes. The more worries you have in the day, the worst your night will be.
A very important thing the book says is about Black and White thinking, I will copy a
very small part of the book here,
I hope I'm not doing something illegal:
"Black-and-white thinking"
People in the grip of depression tend to think in either/or,
black-or-white, all-or-nothing terms. For instance, someone
who is depressed might wake up late and think, "I've overslept;
I can't go to work," instead of ringing to say they will
be delayed or recasting the day's plans in some way to ensure
the necessary work gets done. If a colleague passes in the corridor
without smiling, the depressive person is likely to think,
"He didn't smile at me! He doesn't like me anymore," instead
of considering that the person might have been preoccupied
in thought, fully engaged in conversation with someone else
or not feeling in a good mood himself. If a partner offers a
suggestion for making the doing of some task a little easier,
the depressed person interprets it as a criticism and says
something like, "Well, do it yourself, then!" If one thing goes
wrong, the whole day will be a complete write-off as far as a
person who is depressed is concerned; they will discount or
even forget all the things that went right.