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Why People With Schizophrenia Have Poor Quality Sleep

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It’s not just hallucinations, terrors or delusions keeping people with schizophrenia up at night. There is new research that shows that 80% of people living with schizophrenia experience sleep and circadian rhythm disturbances.

Circadian rhythms are responsible for a person’s sleep-wake cycle. Waking hours are cued by daylight and sleep hours are cued by the release of the chemical, melatonin.

Having a circadian rhythm disorder can severely impact the quality in one’s life. In fact, sleep and circadian rhythms are so intricately linked that poor sleep quality may actually be a causal factor to developing psychosis in adolescents and young adults and the precursor to a psychotic episode once the disorder sets in.

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