Despite sleeping for 7-8 hours every night, I feel extremely sleepy each morning. How do I change this?
You can get 7–8 hours of sleep but not get quality sleep. Getting an extra hour or two of sleep is a big deal, and some people need more than 7 hours of sleep. People who are depressed tend to oversleep, and that can cause further fatigue.If you don’t have depression, you should track your sleeping patterns to see if you are actually getting deep sleep. If you keep waking up at night you are not getting enough deep sleep. Also try to sleep 8–9 hours instead of 7— an extra hour or two can make a huge difference.It’s also normal to wake up feeling sleepy, even if you slept well. Our beds are comfortable and we don’t want to start the day. It’s more enjoyable to stay in our warm bed. It also takes time for our brain to wake up. Taking a cold shower, having coffee, forcing yourself to move fast and get your blood flowing, getting a morning workout in— can help you to wake up faster. Doing cardio, strength and flexibility exercises helps you to wake up in the mornings without feeling stiff. Having good circulation and a strong body helps you to jump out of bed quickly. Not eating the night before and having an early dinner, can help you to wake up more easily. You feel more motivated to wake up when you are in bed and your stomach is grumbling for food.I need 8–9 hours of quality sleep to function at my best. I usually don’t get that much quality sleep, so most of the time my mind and body is not functioning at optimal levels. At 6–7 hours of sleep I am moody, forgetful and have slower reaction times. At 5–6 hours I am very irritable and get very little done, even when I try to get as much done as I can. My mind is just not working. Sleeping 4–5 hours or less per night for more than 2–3 nights in a row, is dangerous for me. I’ve almost fallen asleep driving during weeks when I couldn’t get much sleep.I wish I was one of those people who are productive and healthy when they get only 5-6 hours of sleep every night, but I need at least 6–7 to remain sane, 7–8 to be healthy and 8–9 to have optimum mental and physical health.
I feel like I'm literally going crazy. Help?
I have a diagnosis for OCD and mild depression. Lately my OCD has been super bad. I've had really polar moods. Like I'll be super happy and bubbly for a month or so then I'll be depressed and tired for a month or so. And no matter what, I can't change whatever mood I'm in. I've felt the urge to do really reckless things lately. Driving way too fast, skydiving, and a lot of other things i dont want to say. I've had the urge todo drugs but I havnt and don't plan on doing any. I've been having really bad anxiety attacks. Some times I hate myself and im comvinced that im the ugliest person ever some times i love life and myself I know I'm not. I just don't feel like I'm in my right mind right now. The way I'm thinking isn't me. My decision making process is so different from the way I feel like it normally is and that scares me. I've been really impulsive lately. I'll go days without sleeping and I won't be tired then I'll get super tired and sleep for 15 or 20 hours. I'm irritable. I'm way more sensitive than normal. This has been going on and getting more severe for the past year. My family (not my parents but other relatives) have a tendency to have mental problems and/or substance abuse problems and that's really scaring me. I try really hard to make used feel like I used to but no matter what I do I can't feel how I normally felt. What's going on?
Why do I feel instantly tired and drained when listening to some people talk? This only happens with certain people, such as my mother. With other family members, this does not happen.
The person you’re listening to is probably a sociopath.When a sociopath talks, he/she will speak by changing what he/she says according to the emotion he/she can read in your behaviour.Hayley’s mention of abusive people is right, when someone is abusive what they do is create a neurological response of engagement.The neurological response is a circuit response of your the cns in your body (the body is intertwined with our nervous system and our thoughts are a response to our stimulation of our senses - sight, touch, smell and thought assessment of threat/not threat surroundings) (we are hardwired to need to survive)if they are making you sleep it’s because you are listening to a stimuli (their voice and patterns of talk style) and your body responds by relighting the circuit response that fights to prevent stress build in the brain (after knowing and having been in these interactions enough times you’re body(brain specifically) recognises that sleep will help you)tl;dr the brain needs sleep to active a brain repair and abusive people (sociopaths/sometimes called psychopaths) are the ones that trigger this defence mechanism when you’ve engaged with them on a regular basis
Feeling extremely tired and weak from Xanax?
Fatigue is often a side effect from medication. Fatigue is often due to an unhealthy lifestyle. Fatigue often triggers off further problems such as headaches, migraines, dizziness, lightheadedness, shakiness and nausea. To combat fatigue the energy vitamin B12 can help or a vitamin B complex. Coenzyme Q10 can also help to boost your energy level and the super food Spirulina is another good energy booster. Nuts can give you lasting energy. One of the most common fatigue causes is anxiety which is a state of fear of real or imagined danger, which is manifested as increased heart rate, trembling, panic, weakness, extreme fatigue and stomach or intestinal discomfort. Besides anxiety there are many other common fatigue causes such as insufficient sleep, too much sleep, under eating, thyroid problems, iron anemia, mononucleosis, CFS, glandular fever, side effects from medication, dehydration, overexertion and an unhealthy diet.
Taking Vyvanse, feeling depressed and tired now, why?
First off, I am a 21 year old female college student, non-smoker, non-drinker. I was recently diagnosed with ADHD in December and my doctor initially put me on Ritalin IR 10mg 2x daily. I felt nothing so he increased my dosage to 20mg 3x daily. The first day or so it worked well, lasted nearly until the next dose, but then it worked for a shorter and shorter period of time. For about 2 hours I felt like I could literally accomplish anything. Then, it would wear off and I would crash. The crashes were horrible, I was quite possibly the meanest person in the world. I hated this roller-coaster feeling to say the least. My doctor then prescribed me Vyvanse 50mg 1x daily and I stopped taking the Ritalin. I've been on the Vyvanse since Christmas Eve. I just felt normal and content at first, but I still couldn't concentrate. At this point, I feel like it stopped working at all. I can't get anything accomplished and I don't have an interest to do anything. Today has been the worst, I literally feel depressed. I do not understand why. I feel tired and bored with everything. All day I have gotten zero accomplished. I don't feel suicidal or anything remotely like that, but I do just feel...blah. Has anyone else experienced this? What could this be? How could I have no energy on a stimulant? I've also lost about 15-18 pounds since beginning this drug because of the lose of appetite but the last two days especially today, I'm starving!! I want cake so bad, but I don't have the energy to go to the grocery store.. could this mean I've started to build a tolerance for the drug and need a higher dosage? If so, how could this be since I've only been on it for not quite 2 weeks? Thanks!
Have you ever been so tired that you felt high?
Occasionally... but I usually get high from going on roundabouts or smelling antibacterial hand gel. I'm high at the moment, for no reason - I guess it must be tiredness.
I literally had a marijuana "trip" (scariest experience of my life, please answer)?
Ok I've smoked marijuana a few times. IT never really had that big of an effect on me. I just got tired, got hungry, etc. But yesterday I smoked with my friend and I had such a dramatic response to it. First I felt very tired like weights were pushing me down.... Then I started feeling like my head was heavy and like we were moving in one of those cement-mixing trucks very slowly. IT felt pretty good. We started watching this movie and I was really relaxed.... I started spacing out and then when I came back to my sense I was horrified... I didn't know if this was relaity or not but like past, present, and future were all belnding together and everything was just so weird..... I felt like I was rolling diagnolly forward and everything was going so slowly.... I literally felt like I was going to die. And when I started saying things it all made sense but by the time I finished the sentence I was like "wtf did I just say." And I was just so disoriented and lost in time I was making movements I wasn't even aware of..... IT was so surreal.... And frightening.... And I felt like I could "go with it" if I wanted to, but I was too scared to go with it. Does that make any sense.... I started saying really weird things asking questions about the spiral with the colors and the hole in the middle and asking wheree did it go and all this stuff and my friend was just like wtf are you talking about and laughing..... And then he told me there were like monsters in the carpet in his room so we got febreeze and ran into his room and started spraying everywhere.... I would do anything he said.... And then the scariest part of all is when I felt like me physical senses were coming AFTER I moved.... It was so f*Ckin scary man. And then we went into this store and my friend dropped dimes on the floor and told me to pick them up.... but in reality he dropped them accidently but to me it looked like he did it on purpose like he said "pick these up" and then dropped them. I was like tripping out it was the scariest sh*t man.... My friend was fine though.... He said I was just having anxiety..... Obviously it wasn't laced or else my friend would have had a similar reaction. What the f*ck happened? I'm never smoking weed again by the way.... I think that qualifies as a sign to not do it anymore.... Man that sh*T was trippy and scary as hell..... Thanks.
19 weeks pregnant and I feel exhausted?
I'm 19 weeks pregnant and I'm starting to feel really tired again. I had this feeling within the first weeks up to about the 11 week and it went away. But now it's back, and I have such a hard time waking up in the morning, my lower back and hips are really sore. I could literally sleep for 12 hours a day, is this something to worry about?
Can melatonin (sleeping pills) cause you to feel SUPER tired and fatigued the next day?
You have to be careful not to mess up your melatonin cycle. You must take it EARLY at night, I would say no later than 10 if you want to be functional in the morning. Things like light (even your cellphone light!) and an off balanced sleep cycle could mess up your melatonin cycle. It must be taken same time every night or you will feel tired, your body thinks its suppose to still be sleeping. Try sleeping in the complete dark, cell phone off, quiet, a few night. Go to sleep early, take a lower dose of melatonin and see how you feel. Melatonin will not make you fall asleep it just aids your sleep. I have had to tell so many of my friends this. You can't take it to knock you out, might as well take tylenol PM. Melatonin is meant for those who have trouble sleeping, not trouble falling asleep. melatonin can be great if supplemented properly.