Depression won’t let me feel awake

[Bosox34]

Does anyone else feel that no matter how much sleep you get that your always tired. It seems that all I wanna do if lie and bed and never get up no matter how much sleep that I get. I was wondering if anyone had the same issues.

[Agoraphobic1968]

I get depressed for months at a time....i feel like finding someone to pee for me or buying cathiter bags....my mother had to bath me when she visits4

[fallen_leaf]

Yes my depression makes me tired and sleepy all the time. When I was single I used to sleep a lot. Now with kids I don’t have that option and feel like a bad mom because I never have energy to play with them. To make it worse I developed anxiety the past couple of years so I don’t sleep well at night and if I am able to take a nap I wake up in a panic with my heart pounding and my mind racing.

[-Sasha-]

I go through the same thing sometimes. There's been a few times where I couldn't shake the feeling and felt like that for days. It's almost like I'm already exhausted at just the thought of getting out of bed, cleaning, getting ready, making sure I'm decent enough to go and pick up my boys from school, hw, dinner, baths, bedtime. All the while just trying to hold it together so I don't break down in front of anyone. Then if I'm lucky enough to fall asleep at a decent hour, I repeat the process all over the next day. It's really hard to get out of bed on the bad days. You're not alone.

~S~

[bluestars725]

Yes, especially when I'm having a particularly rough stretch of depression. I just came out of a month long depressive episode, and I felt tired most of the time. I pretty much just wanted to stay in bed because I felt so awful. My generalized anxiety disorder sometimes keeps me up, but the competing symptoms of depression and GAD often exhaust me as well.