118. According to a review of 61 studies of patients suffering from severely debilitating depression, a large majority of the patients reported that missing a night’s sleep immediately lifted their depression. Yet sleep-deprivation is not used to treat depression even though the conventional treatments, which use drugs and electric shocks, often have serious side effects.

Which of the following, if true, best explains the fact that sleep-deprivation is not used as a treatment for depression?

(A) For a small percentage of depressed patients, missing a night’s sleep induces a temporary sense of euphoria.

(B) Keeping depressed patients awake is more difficult than keeping awake people who are not depressed.

(C) Prolonged loss of sleep can lead to temporary impairment of judgment comparable to that induced by consuming several ounces of alcohol.

(D) The dramatic shifts in mood connected with sleep and wakefulness have not been traced to particular changes in brain chemistry.

(E) Depression returns in full force as soon as the patient sleeps for even a few minutes.

118.

The more severely sleep-deprived a patient would be, the more likely it would be that the patient would, whenever possible, catch at least a few minutes of sleep, and according to choice E, depression would then return in full force. This could explain why sleep-deprivation is not used to treat depression, so choice E is the best answer.

这道题目说的是什么东西?

怎么没看懂?

题目说，抑郁病人反映说，只要一天不睡觉，他们就不感到抑郁了。但是为什么不用剥夺睡眠法治疗抑郁症，即使使用药物会有很大的副作用？

E说，是因为这些病人只要睡上几分钟，他们的抑郁症就会完全恢复，也就是说一点用都没有了。

呵呵。。。在逻辑里，措辞用语还是准确一点好，不然容易误导百姓、混扰视听。
我想，应该是：E说，是因为这些病人只要睡上几分钟，他们的抑郁症就会又完全回来，还是跟以前一样非常忧郁，没变。

呵呵。。。咬文嚼字。比如说：救火，是把火扑灭，还是把火救起来让它烧得更旺、更猛一些？

oh..

life the depression == alleviate the effect of depression

just get to know that.

thanks for your help