Stanford Medicine researchers explain how sleep influences our moods and the ‘bidirectional’ nature of that relationship — plus how we can repair broken slumber to improve our mental health.

Many of us have a fraught relationship with sleep. We delay bedtime for precious alone time, we scroll on our phones in bed, we sacrifice weeknight sleep only to catch marathon Zs on the weekend.

Anyone who’s tossed and turned or stayed up too late then faced a cranky early morning knows that poor sleep can trigger a poor mood. But the relationship between sleep and our mental health goes deeper. Getting enough or not enough sleep can impact our mental health, and mental health conditions can influence how we snooze.

Read more – Stanford Medicine: How sleep affects mental health (and vice versa): What the science says