if the seasonal effect is just wanting to sleep 16 hours a day, is that really WRONG, per se?

[cimorene]

What if sleeping 16 hours a day is GOOD?

I thought I was doing pretty well with winter depression this year and then suddenly it hit me like a plank to the back of the head. I just want to sleep 24/7; I feel like I never wake up all the way, you know, like when you wake up at the wrong time and your brain doesn't want to connect for an hour or so in the morning? It never finishes.

My work practice starts Monday. Before I was really excited about it, but as it approaches my anxiety about new places and people, combined with my reluctance to do things that aren't sleeping in bed, is making me a lot more ambivalent about it. And it's not like I can expect to feel much better simply by going there and getting used to it, like you could with say, swimming, or exercise, because there actually... isn't any sun right now; there's a couple of months to go before the sun is up for enough time each day for being out of the house to let me catch significantly more of it...

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

I'm so sorry! Maybe you should get one of those light boxes. Vitamin D has really helped me too.

HUGSES

[cimorene]

i do take the vitamins, but I usually fail to use the sunlight. I'm just bad at having routines at the same time every day and I don't want to use it later in the day - maybe I ought to just give up on that. I understand that rather vigorous exercise - cardio? - can help a lot with seasonal affective disorder, but the idea of my being able to do that in the winter is simply laughable.

[halojedha]

Not having any sun at all is hard. For the last few years I've just let myself sleep as much as I wanted in January, since I'm lucky to be self employed and in a position with work to do so. But since becoming a parent that's not an option. I've noticed my usual sleep feeling not enough but haven't been able to do much about it - I reckon if you can get more, do it!

[cimorene]

Hah, that's a good point. Maybe it's easier to just not fight with myself about it.