Dempsey Stewart | Armin Morbach | Tush Summer 2012 | Sudden Sleep
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Katrin Gerhardy styles Dempsey Stewart in ‘Sudden Sleep’, lensed by Armin Morbach for Tush’s Summer 2012 issue.
Perhaps Dempsey is just exhausted from her intense fashionista lifestyle and not one of the 3.6 percent of US adults who sleepwalk each year. Or she’s a modern, exhausted mom. One in three Americans reports strolling while asleep at least once in their lives.
The study showed people with depression were 3.5 times more likely to sleepwalk than those without, and people with obsessive-compulsive disorder or an alcohol-abuse problem also showed significantly higher rates of sleepwalking.
When it came to medication, people taking SSRI antidepressants - the class of drugs that includes Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft - were three times more likely to sleepwalk at least twice a month than those who didn’t. People using over-the-counter sleeping pills had a higher likelihood of reporting sleepwalking episodes at least two times per month. Surprisingly, prescription sleeping pills didn’t increase sleepwalking risk, while other research has shown this link.
