sleeping is one......

Of all the symptoms of depression, insomnia can be the worst. It saps our physical strength, making it even more difficult to recover. People often wonder why depression causes insomnia. The answer lies in the fact that depression sufferers have a difficult time regulating the different mood and sleep hormones. The hormones you need to improve mood and energy are not the same ones you need to help you sleep. For example, your body needs serotonin to be active and energetic during the day, but not at night, because this interferes with your ability to sleep. During the late evening and night, your body needs melatonin to help you pull back, withdraw and sleep. But daytime melatonin can cause you to feel lethargic, disoriented, irritable and moody. Oftentimes, depression is the result of your body producing the wrong hormones at the wrong time of day. How Hormones Become Imbalanced We each have a center in the hypothalamus of our brain that controls how we sleep and feel. This center, called the Suprachaismatic Nucleus or body clock, creates daily signals or rhythms that govern when our hormones and neurotransmitters are released. These daily rhythms are called circadian rhythms (Latin = about a day), and they can become easily imbalanced from things like stress, trauma, surgery, age, lack of light etc. When your body clock isn’t working right, you have a Circadian Rhythm Disorder.

Being bipolar depressed myself, I have found both insomnia and sleeping-too-much are my problems. There are weeks I don't go to bed till my eyes really, really drop, and that's often not before 03.00 a.m. If I would go to bed before, I would ly awake till 05.00 or something... So at the end of a couple of sleepless weeks, where I drag myself out of bed in the morning, I need to catch up with some good nights sleep....!! On the other hand, when I am very depressed, I get so very tired, I NEED to sleep. Not to hide or like passing the day, no, I sort of fall apart if I don't... And thirdly, yes I sometimes also sleep a lot when I am depressed, just hoping a good nap in the afternoon will lift my spirits.

Sassy, I know exactly what you're saying with this post. I too suffer from depression and it hurts my feelings so much when people would think I was being lazy because I would sleep all the time. It wasn't really something I could help though because even when I was up and about and trying to make something of the day, I would worry myself to exhaustion and end up sleeping or walking around like a zombie. People who are lucky enough to not suffer from depression don't understand what it's like, so it's important for us to find people who can relate...helps us to not feel so alone anymore.

Oh is it the reality?Actually I sleep mostly for 10hrs a day.Actually it has become my favourite time pass.So whenever I find myself free I sleep.Always I found myself more lazy when I wake up and hence I slept more and more.so now you say that it may cause depression.Now I will take care of it...

yea i sleep a lot ,really i sleep for hours continuously without taking proper food.Now i got the reason through you like i undergo somekind of depression within me..if am awake i need to think about something which makes me upset..But i always wish to be active and do some interesting stuffs in my life and i couldnt.Neways i will try to cut down my sleep from now on:)Thanks for helping me at the right with your posting:)Take care

When I'm depressed, I want to sleep. I just want to escape from the emptiness. But I've learned that this is not a good thing for me to do as it tends to prolong the spell of depression for me. It's much better for me to get involved in other activities or to exercise or to talk to people. Of course, I'm not always able to do this when I'm in the void, so sometimes I will sleep.

depress??i guess u r right..i'm kinda depress lately..i just woke up yet still feeling tired..my mind is so heavy..ah..suck..i don't like tospend my time sleeping the whole day..i'm trying to cut down my napping time too...with MYLOT..lol.

I think both depression and sleeping is together always with each other. When you feel depress you want to sleep more and more. And also when you sleep more in general situation (I mean not in depression) you feel like inactive, very lazy. For me it happens specially in the winter season. In frezing cold out side, don't want to go anywhere and tend to sleep more.

ive never been diagnosed with depression but i myself can sleep alot. its like thats the only time my brain isnt thinking and i feel sorta like im t peace. i can sleep 8 hours a night get up in the morning feeling fine then 4 hours after i get up i feel like i havent rested and have the need to lay back down and i can sometimes sleep til my kids come home.

I am not depressed perse, but I do find that I have been exhausted of late. I picked up a bug back in early Jan and cannot seem to shake it. Not having energy to perform every day tasks indeed is depressing (all i want to do is sleep also!) Can you be depressed without really being depressed?

Bipolar disorder, also known as Manic Depression, is not "fear and anxiety as well as PTSD and mood swings". It is a chemical imbalance completly separate from those other things. It is possible to have all of them, but fear, anxiety, PTSD and mood swings are not manic depression.

Oversleeping can be a sign of depression but on other people it's not sleeping enough, insomnia can also be a sign of depression, depression symptoms can sometimes depend on the person, some signs are oversleeping, not sleeping enough or insomnia, over eating or not eating enough... problem is what one can have the other one can have the opposite, but I think it's always a too much or too little of something! Here are some articles: http://www.depression.com/ http://www.focusas.com/Depression.html http://www.clinical-depression.co.uk/Depression_Information/symptoms.htm

sleeping is the most important in life because it is essential for human beings. i sleep minimum 6 hours and maximum 10 hours.

this is pretty informative. my bf has recently been sleeping a lot lately and he hasn't been doing anything lately. i guess people like you tend to sleep the worries away. but it shouldn't be the case, we should be able to face our fears or problems, big or small, because when we face them, it may make us cry, happy or hurt but in the end, we grow from it. it's a learning curve that we shouldn't miss for the world even if it is the toughest thing we have to face and do. so just hang on, enjoy the rollercoster ride because in the end, it's like saying i fell asleep on the whole rollercoster ride and i miss the whole thing. don't let life pass you by. hang in there!

I have suffered from moderate to severe depression throughout my life and I would agree that sleeping may be a sign. However, many people will respond in the opposite...myself included. Insomnia is very common with depression.

I know what you mean. When I am in a depressed mood, I just want to sleep the days away. I don't want to deal with people or life, I just want to sleep. I have a very understanding husband who makes me get up when I am like that. I hope that you are seeing a doctor for your anxiety and mood swings. There are some very good medications that help alot. I am on medications that help me.

I have those same problems. I love sleeping, sometimes Im just bored and I'll go take a nap. I like to be alone alot and just do things by myself, and avoid social activities.

I was feeling that way all my life,I covered it with drinking about 40 years of my life away,until got help,doc but me on cymbalta it's been working for me.GO ask for some help,it will not go away.Best wishes

At first you must believe your our LORD is most powerful.Nobody can make He fall than because He is The king of all kings,father of all father,mother of all mother,and He is The kings of this Kingdom.I means ever other want to disturb you,pray to you god.Because He is the best and everythings He will help you.dont worry.God bless us.

I sleep ten hours in a day and i'm 21.When i sleep take a lot of relax but it's hard find the time to do it!