Can Sleep Disorder Affect Your Mental Health?

What are the common sleep disorders?

Work at night – your biological clock gets disturbed if you remain awake at night due to work. In case you have sleep disorders you cannot breathe properly thereby causing the oxygen levels in your blood to drop.

Medications – some medicines like antidepressants can cause sleep disorders. According to one estimate approximately 55% of people have sleep disorders in one form or the other. Your mental health is not a good shape.

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County To Have New Mental Health Provider

DeSoto County Supervisors, concerned about a local mental health care agency’s ability to handle a staggering caseload, will have a new mental health care provider in August – when the county’s contract with current provider Communicare expires.

Board of Supervisors President Bill Russell said the move to sign an agreement with Region IV Mental Health Services is a step in the right direction.

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