Morning Depression

Someone needs to explain morning depression to me. After a full night's sleep, I do not wake up refreshed but depressed. At night before bed, I am making plans for the next day (which never end up happening), etc. What is this all about? I will mention it to my dr when I see her next week but it is so frustrating. I take 75 mg of sertraline daily. Any thoughts? Thx

[Rockaun]

It happens to me too. My first thoughts every morning are bad and I always feel like crying. I'm still tired and so sore. My bones hurt my head my stomach, it has not always been like this but for a year now I feel like I've had no rest. I am also interested in knowing why or how to fix it!

[hypercat54]

Try not making plans for the next day and see if that helps as maybe your mind is worrying about it in your sleep. My depression is always horrible in the morning too at the thought of having to leave my lovely bed, and trying to summon up the energy to deal with the day.

[quitter333]

easy - stop making plans. Write them down at morning, and forget it. I often did this planning, but then realized it is incredible waste of my time, as I usually did same planing in my head AGAIN in the morning. So I stopped. I may think about solutions to some work I have, but usually I jsut try to imagine a movie or something and sleep well.

Sleep is always relaxing when you go to sleep calmly and happy.

[Hidden]

Stop making plans late on, allow time to relax and do things you enjoy before bed.

If your brain is working as you try to sleep your sleep will be poor.

At home, we stop considering what we did during the day if it was a job we do not enjoy. We never go to bed discussing an argument. you will just churn over the negative. The idea is we never watch a violent film before bed we record it. We have supper at about eight thirty then we keep programs on the television light and do things we enjoy before sleep

BOB

[MrZee]

I love to read fiction novels... uplifting ones. Reading before bed helps to calm my nerves and I sleep better. I also wake up feeling a bit more refreshed.

Perhaps maybe give that a try? Whether or not that works there’s a lot of options available to help you overcome this.

Best,

MZ

[NeuronerdDoaty]

It has a lot to do with poor sleep in depression patients. You can use this as one of your gauges on how bad your depression might be at the time.

Some of us feel like we’re sleeping or don’t really sleep. Our brains are expecting a 5 cycle sleep pattern. Yes most people think it’s 4 but it’s 5.

We have parasomnias. Depression jumbles up those stages of sleep. When good sleepers are in ‘slow waves of sleep’ prior to waking they are dreaming lovely or having night terrors.

I would suggest that perhaps you’re having a variation of a night terror or you just aren’t going in and out of the stages correctly.

1-2 hours before bed-

I would stay away from screens.

No caffeine or smoking.

No exercise except Yoga ‘Nidra’ which is not exercise.

Eat lightly if you’re hungry.

Make your bed when you get up and don’t get back in. Try not to nap unless you’ve done this before.

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The more awake and focused you can be during the day the better you sleep at night. However, clinical depression changes our sleep.

I hope this helps.

Doaty

[Gaby0]

This happens to me to. I’m starting Zoloft now(that’s the brand name of what your taking) and I’m hoping it helps me like lexapro did. Maybe you need a higher dose? My psychiatrisr is putting me on 200mg. But obviously everyone needs something different. What I do to get those depression thoughts and feelings away is every morning I take a nice calming shower and play music that make me feel good. It really changes my mood.

[Gaby0 in reply to Gaby0]

Another thing you could do is tell yourself you have to complete one thing on your list and follow through. Don’t do all. Just the one and when you are comfortable doing the one then try two and maybe this will help also.

[pink83737]

i struggle with this too

[LiveandLetLive42]

Omg this used to be me to the T!! I would make all these plans for the next day and then never do them. I think we tend to overdue our thinking at night and pile too much on ourselves for the next day. Try to just plan one or two things. All that thinking the night before can be wearing you out and making the mornings depressing. It's also hard to get going. I'm glad you're talking to your doctor about it. It really could be anything!!

[staggent]

Apparently it’s very common to have the greatest depression in the mornings, which I know sucks, cause then it just wants to carry on into the rest of the day. This depression thing is all new to me, but it seems that’s when you have to fight the hardest fight, getting those two feet on the floor and keep them moving. I have a puppy that helps me a bit with that, though I do still feel sorry for him sometimes. He always wants to play and this depression has me fatigued and unmotivated to do much of anything.