How has depression affected your sleep habit?

I can't sleep until 3or 4am because my mind is racing and going over all the things wrong with my life or how I've failed or how I feel alone. I have weird vivid dreams and always wake up feeling tired and drowsy. I usually only get around 5 hours a night

Not feeling depressed as much as blah- then my mind spinning thoughts- cant sleep - wake up very tired wanting to go back to bed every morning

I wanna sleep all the time but when I try to I can't turn my brain off

I stay up till 12am and wake up around 4 or 5am

Right now it is causing me to sleep until 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM.

Basically I sleep as long as I can until my Anxiety replaces my Depression in the drivers sear and my Depression takes shot gun.

They take turns driving all day long.

At the time all I want to do is sleep and not have to deal with being awake, but later I feel a mixture of guilt and disappointment.

@River

i havent slept for more than 5 hours everyday for 3 months

It gave me temporary insomnia but otherwise I'm afraid to fall asleep early or before 4am because of my thoughts that I can't get rid of unless I get myself distracted.

I either have trouble sleeping or I just sleep for more than 12 hours

Sleep is something we all crave- often more than food. I envy those who fall blissfully and soundly asleep at the drop of a hat. I spent the last year and a half taking OTC meds, cannibas extracts- and unfortunately topped off with ETOH- all searching for sleep. Fortunately able to get weaned off those crutches- and am going a little bit better. Perhaps it coincides with acquiring my little dog who sleeps with me. Even so- many nights I can't turn off those incessant worries.

I have no sleep schedule. I go to sleep at like 4 am sometimes and wake up at like 2. I go to sleep at 2 am and wake up at 11. I go to sleep at 7 pm and wake up at 6. There is no consistancy.