Weighted blankets can help to improve sleep in adults with insomnia and other mental health conditions including anxiety and depression | Study found the blankets were effective in improving sleep, reducing medication use and enhancing mood.
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From the article: Weighted blankets can help to improve sleep in adults with insomnia and other mental health conditions including anxiety and depression, but results are mixed for children, a new review has found.
Led by occupational therapist and Flinders University researcher Dr Suzanne Dawson, [the study](https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.2024.050676) found the blankets were effective in improving sleep, reducing medication use and enhancing mood.
The finding has since been behind a change in state-wide protocols for weighted blanket use across public mental health services in South Australia.
“Sleep is a basic human need and when someone isn’t getting enough, it can lead to numerous health issues as well as increase the risk of, or exacerbate, chronic conditions, including heart disease, stroke, and mental health issues,” says Dr Dawson, from Flinders University’s Caring Futures Institute.
“In occupational therapy, weighted blankets are becoming more common amongst many ages as an assistive technology, but no current clinical guidelines exist for their use.”
I suffer from sleep apnea and for me the opposite is true. The lighter the covering the better I sleep.
Would die from the heat over here.
Every divorce finalization should come with a weighted blanket
If anything at least it wouldn’t come off of me so easily, sometimes I wake up from the chill with my blanket on the floor
I think it might also have to do with a weighted blanket kinda sorta feeling like you’re being cuddled/held by something
Just get cats, that works for me
Started using them for yoga nidra. Then moved onto sleeping with them. Can’t imagine going back to ordinary duvets. Definitely help with long Covid (dysautonomia) disrupted sleep.
I’ve slept poorly my entire life. In the last year, I started using a weighted blanket and melatonin, and combining several cups of chamomile tea and cannabis every evening. I actually sleep, now! A caution, however – it took a while to realize, but the weighted blanket hurts my feet! I have to remember to pull it up and put something else over them.
For anyone not suffering from those conditions, weighted blankets can induce a fear of being trapped in a confined space and trigger panic attacks.
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This is a science article with no bias from the weighted blanket industry? As someone who suffers from depression and insomnia, a weighted blanket sounds interesting. Anyone here seen improvements to their mental health and sleep while using one?
Mine is 20lbs (maybe 25?) and I absolutely love it, 10/10 would recommend
I roll around to much and it always ended up on the floor.