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Fascinating. During a long car trip a year ago there was an Irish psychotherapist who claimed a major breakthrough in the treatment of depression. He had countless people backup his claim, but more important was the basis of his treatment was the contention that depression is fundamentally a sleep disorder. Not being able to write down his name (whilst driving) I regret I haven't more information but he methodically and convincingly presented his evidence and explained how his treatment worked. Rather than follow the usual (and effective) cognitive therapy approach, he tacked the underlying sleep disordeer and got better results (happier people :o) than cognitive therapy, as I recall. Apologies for the lack of detail, but drug treatment for a sleep disorder seems to back up his hypothesis.