Seems to be the dominant factor in my life. Always tired. And when I fall asleep it’s like I could stay that way forever. Take last night for example. I went to bed early for me. I should’ve woken up 8 hours later at 10:40. Woke up at 1 pm. And if I hadn’t checked the time I would’ve kept sleeping like nothing.
I was having the most engaging dream. I’m always more awake and alive in dreams than I am here, as I feel I’ve mentioned before. But oh man it was crazy. It was so long and complex there was no way I could remember it all but it was intense. There were battles and evil to face and people to win over, I had to use my powers and be at the top of my game.
I love dreaming but I wish I wasn’t so sleepy all the time you know? That’s all I have to say. Today’s been going pretty well, aside from my late wake up time throwing off my schedule a bit.
Have you had a sleep study before Anna? It’s possible that something deeper is causing you to feel fatigued all the time. If you’re overweight, then you could easily have sleep apnea, which a sleep study can determine.
Not overweight. My uncle had sleep apnea and wasn’t overweight, but my mom says that people with sleep apnea snore REALLY loudly. I don’t snore.
Maybe I’d do a sleep study. I never really thought about it. I’m seriously exhausted all the time. I’m lucky if I get like a few hours of feeling awake.
It’s possible it could be narcolepsy or other sleeping disorders. Either way, I’d suggest talking to your doctor about it. A sleep study couldn’t hurt and would eliminate possible causes for your fatigue.
No I’m not on anything. And actually my already very low energy was one of the factors that made my old pdoc choose not to put me on them, because she didn’t want to risk just permanently knocking me out.
She was gonna put me on an antidepressant back then…it was supposed to help with my anxiety and the depressive symptoms I had that went with everything…(plus I hadn’t had psychotic symptoms in quite a while back then so I thought I’d gone into remission!) I know depression can cause this sleepiness but I wasn’t depressed at all today and was still very tired.
I’ll talk to my mom about it. Thanks again for helpful advice!!
Drink espresso like a man dying of dehydration in a desert drinks water and then you will have my powers.
Female mouse. She does crazy ■■■■ like backflips and lifts weights.
Mouse in other side of gym obsessed with tricep pushdowns and dumbbell press. Power physique.
How’s school going? I wrote my introduction for my thesis, only cited 22 sources kind of beat myself up about it. Wanted to go back and put in more but it was too well structured and flowy to ■■■■ with. So I just made a references section.
Hey I’m looking at grad schools. You know that there are tiers of psych PhD programs. My scores are mid range for a PhD so I’m looking at tech and state schools not the west coast top tier schools. I might end up in Chicago at Illinois Inst. Tech.
My wife was recently evaluated for sleeping disorders. She was sleeping at night and napping half the day.
It turned out she does have sleep apnea and the CPAP machine with oxygen they gave her has completely revitalized her. She sleeps normal hours and wakes rested and doesn’t need naps.
*As i remember it the doctor said all people with sleep apnea gasp for air after periods of not breathing while they are asleep. But not all of them are overweight or are snorers.
And there are many different causes of sleep disorder.
Caffeine doesn’t do anything for me. Maybe makes it so instead of feeling drugged-sleepy I just feel tired instead. Once I had 3 straight monsters and still fell asleep easily. It does make me jittery if I have too much, so I try to stick to one cup of coffee a day.
School is going…ok for me. I’m starting to get a lot of C’s. Hard classes. I’m hoping to improve otherwise I won’t get into great grad schools. Gpa isn’t horrible yet but it will get there if I stay on this route.
Huh. Yeah naps are a MUST for me during the day to function properly. No naps my brain turns to mush and I end up with a migraine. I typically need at least a 30 minute nap every 3 hours. And I have to set a timer or else I’d just keep sleeping and sleeping…
Since I know sleep apnea runs in my family it could be the case. And I do wake up during the night at random pretty normally. I usually just go right back to sleep, and I don’t wake up gasping but who knows.
GPA is a bitch. You could try just acing the GRE and having good recommendations and research experience.
Typically if a student has a bad GPA they advise counseling not neuroscience. Be prepared to hear that from people. Do whatever you want. For me it’s clinical PhD or ■■■■ it I’m gonna need more drugs
Counseling? Like therapy? I could never be a therapist…I’m horribly awkward when it comes to comforting people (I blame my parents, they followed a rub some dirt in it and get over it parenting style lol) and it drains me horribly…also I end up feeling incredibly guilty and disappointed when I can’t help someone.
I got a C+ in my first neurobio class. But it wasn’t my dang fault. When we came into that class our professor told us he was going to wreck our GPA’s. He told us he made his exams so difficult not even he could answer all the questions off the top of his head. Basically we took grad school level exams. And if everyone got a 40, he just made it a 70. So it was really hard to fail, but also really hard to get above a C, because you would have had to do significantly better than everyone else in the class. He even told us that hardly anyone ever got A’s…
So now because I had a tough (though great in every other aspect) professor it looks like I suck butt at my major when in reality that’s not the full story. I could’ve taken the less tough and less good professor and gotten an A but I wanted the best experience. Grad schools won’t see that…GPA’s are the worst.
The other classes though, chemistry, calculus…I am just genuinely bad at to be honest. I don’t know what I was thinking, becoming a science major…I was bad at all of those classes in hs. (I had a 3.4 gpa in hs, but stellar AP test scores and a pretty high SAT score) Why would I suddenly be better in college? I work my butt off and still barely pass the classes.
I don’t know what to do with myself at this point really. I have a passion and I’m just failing at all the most basic prereqs for it…but according to my friend’s professors my school is incredibly rigorous in academics (I attend a very large, very old school) and some of them got C’s in chemistry too. And look at them now. So maybe I can still have some hope…
Sorry for super long reply. This has been eating away at me lately.
Rutgers. Big 10 school. Over 70,000 students if you count undergrads and grads.
And from what I’ve heard they don’t care about the school unless you did an ivy. Which pisses me off further because here are these kids taking all their prereqs at some easy community college and getting straight A’s and getting accepted over the people who really cared about getting a good education even if it was a real challenge.
Rutgers is a good ass school. Their Psy D program is arguably the best in the U.S.
I go to university of Memphis. It’s a joke but I pick harder classes and teachers. My mentor is serious as ■■■■. It’s easy to make a 3.9 here if you are from a prep background like I am.
Yeah we have a few departments that are supposed to be the best in the country. I’m getting a great education here, and they offer tons of opportunities to undergrads that you don’t find elsewhere but man oh man does it kick my butt.
