Many people suffer from symptoms of depression and anxiety. Now doctors are treating those symptoms by examining a person's snoring.
In the case of Ashley Keenan, her snoring tipped off a sleep expert that she was having a hard time breathing while she was asleep, NBC 4 reported.
Experts call it obstructive sleep apnea. It occurs when a person stops breathing several times a night and, as a result, they never fall into a deep sleep, NBC 4 reported.
"The quality of (Ashley's) sleep was compromised because she wasn't breathing a good part of the time," said sleep expert Dr. Judith Owens.
So instead of the antidepressants and stimulants a psychologist had prescribed for her, sleep experts came up with something else: a CPAP [Continuous Positive Airway Pressure] machine.
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