Depression and Sleep

Major Depressive Disorder may impact your sleep with symptoms such as insomnia, difficulty staying asleep, or sleeping too much. When changes to sleep patterns persist, it’s important to pay attention as they may indicate underlying mental health issues.

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[travismoore]

Sleep helps me forget reality for a while.

[misanatozaki]

Sleep is like a free trial of being dead

[chorizo]

I find it hard to get out of bed. I usually sleep at like 1-2am and wake up around 12pm, but I won’t get out of bed till like 2-3pm, this causes me to not eat enough food which makes me to be more tired. I have no motivation to do anything anymore.

[elliemathews]

I am 50 and have fought major depressive disorder for at least 30 of those years. I sleep to escape . It gives me a mental break from the sadness. I sleep A LOT which has affected my job history. I've lost numerous jobs which only makes the depression worse. It's just a snowball effect.

[nikkimckay]

I come here to check this video out because I'm really struggling everyday my depression makes me sleep alout and even feel tired even after haveing a good amount of sleep it's a helpful video

[billgates]

I sleep my pain away about 7 times a day. Guess I can say goodbye to highschool grades

[MmmChipotle]

I dont feel sad, just sleep ever since I've been laid off. After 8 years at a job its alot to handle.

[superempath]

I just want to sleep & never wake up.

[max-]

Major cause of my insomnia has to be depression. I can't stop thinking in my even for a minute. Sometimes i try so hard to sleep that i just spend 5+ hours on bed awake with lights off then i just give up and grab my phone. Maybe if i had a successful positive life i wouldn't have been thinking all the time.

[Prod_ZzimzZ]

At night i always sleep late cuz i feel more peaceful at night that no one disturbs me but when day comes i just feel less energetic and get stressed again that i wanted to sleep the whole day and wait for night time to come

[bondocgeronpauly.]

Its an escape from reality for me, and i always wish i dont wake up on my sleep anymore.

[-mkz-]

When I was in highschool I recall sleeping too much so that time would pass faster

[cheezypeezy]

What’s sad is there are so many people that don’t have the option to go to a quiet room.

[cmmc]

I have been ill my whole life. I was also severely abused as a child. My sleep has been an issue since my first trauma at 13 months old. I currently take Amitriptyline to stay asleep, getting there is the problem. I live in level 3 pain but spike with flares often daily due to a rare condition. My pain can go up to an 8 and stay there for hours. Between the mental and physical aspects of what causes my depression, they are currently in a dead heat.

They took out my first body part that was defective at age 4, I am now missing 9 organs. Hard to believe I am still alive. Currently, my body decided to hate on my largest organ, one we can't live without. My skin. I have a rare condition called Erythromelalgia. When it flairs it feels like I am being scalded. My skin turns red hot but I have to be careful with dealing with the pain because like a real burn, you can make it worse. No ice directly on the skin and only for ten minutes at a time. One knee flaring can make the other flair. This is unilateral and it starts at the joints then spreads over the skin as time goes by. I have jumped into the shower fully clothed and bawling when I was in a situation I couldn't get out of easily. I was riding a bus in Canada between Calgary and Medicine Hat. It was the only way to get there according to my husband. Well, now he drives because at least that way I know the A/C works.

Things that trigger me are temperature changes, pain from other issues, high blood sugar (diabetic too), and a bad liver. I have had my thyroid removed twice and now the leftover cells are nodules. Yes, you can regrow your thyroid. I won't go into any more detail about the physical stuff, it is the PTSD that tops all the things wrong with my sleep issues.


I consider myself fairly well educated about depression and in particular, situational depression. That doesn't make it easier though. Lately, it has gotten a lot worse. I have pain cycles that make me feel like I am always chasing pain and causes. Sleep has always been troublesome for me. I never slept well as at 60 I am pretty sure that won't change.

I do meditate to help myself go to sleep but staying on a schedule is nearly impossible. Even sleeping pills or Melatonin, turning off all the lights and not using the computer before bed, you name it, I have tried it. I wish there was a new trick. I did have some minor success with acupuncture but now I can't find anyone I trust to do it again.

Thanks for the forum to let these things out into the light, sometimes that in itself helps.

[mahesh-doqw]

When I sleep ..I feel total freedom ...I just love sleeping ❤️ whole day

[severesharky]

I don't tell anyone cause I don't wanna stress out anyone more in my family

[SongbirdBarrett]

Anxiety started in elementary school, depression in middle school, psychosis in high school. I don’t struggle with daily symptoms anymore, although I still find sleep to be a welcome escape.

Teaching myself guitar at age 14, then beginning songwriting in my 20s has given me a good coping mechanism (and hence the reason I’m on YouTube to share my music). I also spend time with God and actively cast down any negative thoughts in the Name of Jesus, commanding them not to take control or set up real estate in my mind. Mental illness can be caused by evil spirits trying to oppress you.

In some ways medicine helps, but when the side effects begin to outweigh the benefits, I feel it’s time to stop medicines and go back to coping skills.

I feel like using sleep to escape is literally the least of my worries. If it helps me from slowly cycling down into a full-blown psychotic episode, I feel it’s not something to judge myself too harshly on. I cannot sleep over 12 hours a day, because my responsibilities take up the other 12 hours. So, even in the mess of my escapism, I still find balance to complete tasks.

I mainly wanted to comment this to encourage everyone that there is a way to overcome depression, and for me it has been my faith in Christ, my coping skills, and medicine when things have gotten out of control and cycled so far down that I needed that chemical reset in my brain.

God bless you all and pick up a healthy hobby. He created you to create something, you just gotta figure out what that something is!

[laysoe]

It’s hard to go
To work Whne you’re not feelin any joy. All you feel is anxiety and paranoid. Worst feeling ever.

[MyShortsAreWet_]

I know I'm not depressed(hopefully), but I tend to stay up alot at night and I can't fix it and I sleep past my whole day sometimes.

[elinawitbooi]

This is me. I can't take it anymore I want to sleep but I can't. My head is going to explode. I drank 3 cups of coffee for my million assignments that I am doing under so much stress. I am getting sleeping pills tomorrow my heart and soul just can't I need to rest.