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04/04/2025

Tips to avoid burnout

02/12/2025

Why depression and insomnia share a relationship

Here are the top three connections between depression and insomnia:

1. Sleep restores mind and body
While you sleep, your body stays active, performing essential maintenance that keeps you healthy. Your brain clears toxins and stores memories. Your cardiovascular system has time to rest and heal as blood pressure drops, blood vessels relax, and the heart rate slows. Insomnia disrupts these critical processes, affecting nerve communication, decreasing neurotransmitter production, and making it hard to regulate emotions and stress — issues that make you vulnerable to depression.

2. Depression and insomnia share brain chemicals
Brain chemicals (neurotransmitters) regulate your sleep cycles and moods. Depression and insomnia both depend on the same neurotransmitters, namely, serotonin and dopamine. Low serotonin levels are directly associated with depression. Many medications we prescribe to treat depression work by restoring serotonin in your brain. You also need serotonin to produce melatonin, the hormone that responds to light and makes you feel sleepy at night. Dopamine also serves a dual role. Depleted dopamine affects your energy and causes symptoms of depression. You need dopamine to ensure you transition from one stage of sleep to the next, which is the only way to get restorative sleep.

3. Mental and behavioral changes occur
Depression and insomnia change your thinking and behaviors in ways that perpetuate and magnify mood and sleep problems. For example, you may drink more alcohol or caffeine than usual. Both disrupt your sleep cycle. Depression makes you focus on negative thoughts that keep you awake. Insomnia makes it hard to deal with daily responsibilities, increasing your stress and making you feel irritable and worthless.
Treatment helps depression and insomnia
It doesn’t matter which condition dominates your life or if you’re plagued by both; treatment can help. We offer customized care with medication management to restore brain chemicals and therapy focused on giving you skills for overcoming depression, insomnia, or both.

Contact us at Newstone Behavioral Health in Garland, Texas, today to request a telemedicine appointment.

02/04/2025

Understanding The Close Relationship Between Depression And Insomnia

Anyone with difficulty sleeping knows how it affects their energy, mood, and brain power, even if only temporarily. It’s not hard to imagine how persistent insomnia could lead to all-out depression.

Depression notoriously disrupts sleep. Sometimes, people with depression sleep too much, but they’re just as likely to have insomnia and struggle to get a good night’s sleep.

The close relationship that depression and insomnia share makes both conditions worse and can lead to mistaking one for the other — challenges you can overcome with help from Bosede Iwuamadi, DNP, PMHNP, and her team at Newstone Behavioral Health.

You can depend on Dr. Iwuamadi’s experience and expertise in both conditions. She manages your symptoms, accurately diagnoses one or both, and provides personalized care that restores your mental well-being.

In our next post, we will be explaining how the two conditions are connected.

Contact us at 469-463-0036 or newstonebehavioralhealth@gmail.com

11/15/2023

Clinical Preceptorship Opportunity
Are you a PMHNP student seeking to complete clinical hours and rotation? Bosede Iwuamadi, DNP PMHNP-BC, is accepting new students. For enquires send email to newstonebehavioralhealth@gmail.com Phone: 1-469-463-0036

10/09/2023

If you have any mental health needs, seek medical attention or call us at Newstone Behavioral Health - 469-463-0036
By Dr Bosede Iwuamadi DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC, B.Ed

08/22/2023

Tips for Developing a Self-Care Routine for Students
As the new school calendar begins, students will face the pressure of coping with academic demands and environmental changes.
Prioritizing your self-care routine is crucial for mental health students to ensure their mental and emotional well-being.

Here are some effective tips to help you create a self-care routine that works for you: Firstly, allocate some time for yourself daily. It could be in the morning, afternoon, or evening, but make sure it's solely for you. Utilize this time to do something that makes you happy, such as reading a book, taking a walk, or engaging in a hobby.

Secondly, practice mindfulness by being present now and paying attention to your thoughts and feelings without criticism. You can achieve this through meditation, deep breathing exercises, or simply focusing on your breath for a few minutes.

Thirdly, exercise regularly to boost your mood and reduce stress. Find a form of exercise you enjoy, such as running, yoga, or dancing, and make it a regular part of your routine. Fourthly, social support is essential for mental health, so make time to connect with friends and family in person or virtually. Feel free to seek support when you need it.

Lastly, sleep plays a significant role in mental health, so aim to get 7-9 hours of sleep every night and establish a regular sleep routine to assist you in obtaining the rest you require. Remember, self-care isn't selfish. Taking care of yourself is essential to your mental and emotional well-being and can help you be more productive and focused on your studies.

By incorporating these tips into your routine, you can develop a self-care practice that supports your mental health as a student. Seek mental health services from trusted professionals, and in the case of intruding thoughts or suicidal ideation, seek immediate help or call 911.

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12/01/2022

Welcome to December

10/27/2022

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10/13/2022

Coping with the Stress and Anxiety of the Season
As humans, we live in seasons and times, all of which have corresponding ramifications for the physical, emotional, social, economic, and spiritual well-being of individuals, families, communities, and society as a whole. So how does one respond or adjust to dynamics and changes taking place within and around?
As we approach the end of the year, the festive seasons of thanksgiving, Christmas, and the new year are upon us. They are times of joyful celebrations that bring families and friends together. Unfortunately, the period can also be stressful due to the following reasons:
1. People may experience loneliness due to the loss of loved ones. Loneliness may result from losing a relationship through divorce or strained relationships. The results may be grief and sadness. Those affected will need to seek emotional and spiritual support.
2. Tension in family relationships due to sibling rivalry, unwelcome in-laws, political, ideological, or social affiliations. Family members must be sensitive to the feelings of others. This sensitivity will require self-awareness and supervision that encourages respect for others.
3. Financial demands to meet the season's needs like buying gifts, traveling, cooking, and hosting dinner parties. Inability to cope with the requests can be interpreted as stinginess, non conforming, which may attract scorn, shame, or humiliation. Be contented with what you have and avoid going into debt which can worsen your burden. Be realistic about what you can or cannot do and let your loved ones understand your limitations.
4. Poor self-management and temptation to fit in may exacerbate mental health conditions. If you struggle with a feeling of isolation, find some healthy exercises to do or attend a community event. Be self-affirming and positive in your outlook. Live well, eat healthily and stay strong. You will not sink, but you will sing!
Faced with the pressure of life, remember to pray the serenity prayer "God grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
If you have any mental health needs, seek medical attention or call us at Newstone Behavioral Health - 469-463-0036
By Dr Bosede Iwuamadi DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC, B.Ed