Oversleeping. How do you get yourself to wake up?

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I have tried everything. I set an alarm clock and an alarm on my phone. And my phone is a few feet away from the bed so I have to actually get up to shut the alarm off. But then I just stumble half asleep back to bed.

Nothing wakes me up. I miss mornings. And I hate sleeping so much. Clozapine is great but this sleeping is brutal.

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could be depression…I stay in bed when I’m depressed…are you depressed?

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You could try these

They didn’t work out for me though !

What helps me now is having several alarms on my phone 30 minutes apart.

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I wish I could over sleep. Someone making me sick in the morning.

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I have to go to bed earlier, around 9pm - and my alarm goes off at 6am. 9 hours is sufficient. I then do my morning routine while still in bed and waking up, and by half past Im ready to get up and put the coffee on. Takes a lot of uumph and personal fight to get me up most mornings.

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Do you work @Banjo ?

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I enjoy coffee and nicotine in the morning so that makes me get up.

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I am the Hausmann, for now. Responsible for making sure the house is tidy and that everyone else is catered and prepared for. Its a 24/7 job, with no thank you or pay :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Hi. I met with a sleep medicine doctor that my psychiatrist referred me to because I had bad hours, trouble falling asleep, and waking up on time. I have had problems ever since getting sick.

I will share things that sleep doctor recommended. These are all things that have helped:

  • Setting a schedule to abide by
  • Limit the amount of sunlight that comes into your bedroom. I put up styrofoam over my bedroom window to dim incoming light. That way, your body will know dark = sleep. You will only get light during day when you exit bedroom, so light = wake.
  • Blue light filtering glasses to use for a couple hours prior to bed.
  • Blue light filtering phone screen cover.
  • Caffeine intake should only be early day. Def none 6 hours before bedtime onward.
  • Alarms (sounds like you’ve tried this). Multiple alarms on separate devices. I have phone beside bed and an alarm clock across room on desk.

I don’t know how much of this will help you, but I hope something will.

Final thing: if I sleep at 68 degrees I have a tougher time getting up. 69 and I have better ability to not go back in bed. Temp matters.

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Clozapine makes me sleep a lot, too. But my therapist says she’d rather see me sleeping too much than too little. Since I’ve been on clozapine and having ECT my suicidal ideation has gone way down and my voices have become less vociferous. That’s a trade off I’ll happily take. And so far all my cardiac markers on clozapine have been fine.

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@jukebox is right over sleeping can lead to depression. I’ve been doing exactly the same thing. If I have things to do or an appointment or something I can get up by setting 2 alarms. Morning t.v can be good to wake up to and switch on.

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I was oversleeping on Lybalvi. There wasn’t much I could do about it. I would go to bed at 11PM and wake up at 3PM, and waking up sucked. Caffeine didn’t help, and if I had to wake up for an appointment before 1PM I was cooked.

It was working for my symptoms though so I stayed on it until there was an intolerable side effect worse than the oversleeping.

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having something to do when you wake up helps a lot.

If you have a hobby to look forward to or something.

If you like to have a hot shower, or cup of tea, or something just focus on having to do something. Maybe even to wash your clothes, feed the cat…

It works for me, but i am not on clozapine so I don’t really know what i am talking about…

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