I am spending like 16 hours a day asleep. This is a real bad sign for me. This usually heralds bad symptoms on the horizon.
Got up today at 2pm. Is 8:39pm now and want to go to bed again
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dude…you’re depressed about something…you need coffee and putting on “outside” if it were me.
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Will do man. Is weird I just made a coffee before I saw your post.
Outside is getting put on
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Hang out online so you don’t go to sleep just yet.
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what has helped me (dont know if it will work for u) is forcing myself not to sleep more than like 8 hrs or maybe 10. the more i sleep the more tired i get and the less i sleep the less tired i get. thats usually how it goes for me.
i think its cause when u sleep ur brain breaks down chemicals. so the longer u sleep the less u have and the more tired u get. i sleep about 10 hrs a night probably now. sometimes more sometimes less.
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I slept for 14h straight. It feels as if I’m sleeping my life away.
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That’s what I was doing for a while
In the evenings I pushed my bedtime by 30 mins a day until it was at the right level
Sucks that it’s all or nothing but worth trying to do it gradually
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Ive been sleeping 12 hours a night so Im going to set my alarm at 8 hours and see if that works…
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I have this problem too. I agree with @Kxev it usually helps for me to do something online that keeps my mind active enough to stay awake but not active enough to make me more tired.
Ie. No brain games but YouTube videos and surfing the forum work great.
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I sleep 11 hours a day these days.
When I was on a regular dose of clozapine I slept 16 hours a day as well.
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Guys, I don’t envy you but boy do I wish I could just switch places for a couple days. I wake up every 1.5-3h, 4.5 sometimes if I am sleep deprived. Sometimes I need to basically sleep manually instead of falling asleep, constantly playing whack-a-mole with my consciousness and even manually handling the process of cleaning ■■■■up to get the last 3h in to the point that when I am asleep I will dream about trying to fall asleep, wake up and need to fall asleep again. I swear if I need to switch APs in the future I am coming here and asking which ones are more likely to make me drowsy because sleeping has long since turned into a job and I really want to feel again the sensation of waking up the next day, not the next hour…
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Apologies. I should have been a bit more considerate towards the many folk like yourself who find it real hard to get and maintain a sleep. That must be horrible
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No need to be considerate, different problems don’t mean they aren’t both legitimate problems in their own right. It’s not a competition. I was just butting in where I didn’t belong because I wanted to say my piece, if anything I should apologize for adding nothing to the topic.
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Not at all mate. Sorry if it came across that I was having a go. Wasn’t my intention
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I feel you…
I’m in that boat but also in that boat with my mother who is adding stress to my system because she has serious back pain from a nerve that is being pressed by her tense muscles. Her lack of sleep makes it worse and she ends up wailing in pain for a while.
Do you have general tension?
My theory is that in both these cases of oversleeping and difficulty sleeping we’re dealing with dissociation.
I had a momentary breakthrough in getting my mom to break free from dissociation but she gets “charged” and is no longer relaxed pretty easily. She also sleeps for like a few hours or less at a time.
The reason it’s so difficult is because I feel there’s a deep need to communicate feelings but it’s hard because there’s fear about it. So it just ends up we are suppressing (or is it repressing??).
Part of that feeling stuff is meant to get resolved in sleep too. But when it doesn’t I guess that’s where therapy is meant to help. Namely EMDR therapy.
Would be much easier to communicate though than have to go through that process… And it’s free.
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