How has depression affected your sleep habit?
Depression can have serious and mild affects in our sleeping patterns or habit.
How has depression affected your sleep pattern or habit?
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I wake up about two or three times during the night and most aggravating is waking up early morning wanting to go back to sleep
For me i usually can get 3 or 4 hours on average, but what has helped me the past few days is my weighted blanket. But i still deal with all those stupid racing thoughts and I still dont feel as refreshed as id like too. Ive always had awful sleep and sleep habits since middle school.
@selfconfidentJackfruit8497 Having good sleep hygine is really important. Sleep is essential to well-being. We have a self-help guide for sleep issues on 7cups in the "self-help section"
I have to listen to music to be able to sleep otherwise mind starts wandering and then I'll never sleep and probably end up crying lol and I can't go to sleep early unless I wanna wake up at like 4 am
Lately I've been experiencing restlessness and difficulty falling asleep, and also periods where I could sleep for 15 hours. It's becoming frustrating and I feel like it's a losing battle trying to regulate my sleep habits. I know how important good sleep is, and when I don't wake up well-rested it just seems to negatively impact the whole day.
@River
Due to all my physical disabilities & mental depression & meds, my depression can have me sleeping 3-4 days in bed, no eating, rare restroom breaks. I go to sleep and stay asleep 12 hrs, wake, restroom and sleep another 12, so on and so forth. It's due to my aches/ pains and depression but then I get even more depressed because I've slept so long. It's a very vicious cycle.
I can't sleep for longer than 20 minutes - 2 hours at a time and have trouble going back to sleep because of my anxiety and depression. I find that I have to find ways to calm down and tire myself out so much so that my mind stops racing in order to go back to sleep.
Getting better sleep without meds- got my "pandemic puppy" - a small senior dog who gets to sleep with me. Best part is how excited he greets me in the morning- saying- "get out of bed and play!"
i cant sleep in a flow.. i keep having nightmares., or weird dreams.. i wake up and sleep.. each 1 or 2 hours the whole night.. i reallly wish to sleep in 1 flow though.. cant wake up in the morning either.. i feel lazy the whole rest of the day.. its like sleeping for 2 hours then waking up again.. then sleeping after 2 hours or so.. then waking up again.. the worst part is imy sleep never lasts more than 2 hours.. its always less than 1 hour.. or 2 hour.. thats it..
Depression hits hardest during the day, night is when anxiety goes wild.
Spend the whole day exhausted. nornally fall asleep in the early morning and hopefully stay out of it till about noon. Then the rest of the day is spent trying to get to a decent headspace.
@Quinzel same. I feel like I'm sleeping all the time just to escape myself.
@River - Hi :) I realize this was posted nearly two years ago. But in case anyone would like to know my responses? .....
When I was first diagnosed with depression (I was a senior in high school), I think a *major* contributing factor was how much I was sleeping. That criteria for "does she have depression or not?" was definitely check-marked. Near the beginning of the school year I would come home from rehearsal, and fall into bed (well, climb into ... it was sort of tall). I would sleep for ?1 or 2 hours. Someone of my family would come wake me up for supper. I would go eat with them and then I guess back to my room for homework. Then I would sleep the full night too. For me at that time, depression certainly meant hypersomnia! ~ Platy