Sleep is biological function, its repetitive routine of day and night, its time of sleeping, quality of sleeping, ageing and chronic diseases like depression affect more of that, how can we manage insomnia or sleep disorder with physiological or pharmacological manners, this is very important issue in the world, reviews and articles related to general physiology and its control,
Start here:
https://www.sleepfoundation.org/articles/cognitive-behavioral-therapy-insomnia
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/insomnia/in-depth/insomnia-treatment/art-20046677
https://www.cbtforinsomnia.com/
during sleep deprivation, thyroid hormones increases exponentially, and so depressive symptoms amelliorate. It well known that TSH increases during sleep deprivation, and it is well knowm that increasing the thyroid axis it is possible to omprove depression! The medical literature is full of circumstancial evidence to that conclusion! Many depressive patients, when fail to improve with the common drugs for their mental condition improve when to the treatment is added T3 treatment! Read my article “ Secondary to the excessive synthesis of melatonin, consumption of serotonin and melatonin over signaling in the pars tuberalis may be central to the pathophysiology of winter depression.”
There are tons of research papers, reviews, and books available online as well in pubmed.
You can also refer my book as well:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/sleep-and-mental-illness/6B85CA77F46DB11183A93A3400878B3D
We find that rather than the absolute sleep time, sleep architecture - the distribution of deep phases is important and that patients with unrefreshed sleep have more deep sleep phases in the second half of the night.
Article here on the balance of pharmacological and psychological approaches: Article Insomnia disorder: diagnosis and prevention
As for treating in depression, the two are very closely linked. Treating one will have a positive impact on the other, and addressing psychological and precipitating factors is crucial.
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