Ive been so exhausted lately
 

I dont know what is causing it, but its becoming a bit of a problem. I have absolutely no energy during the day and it feels like I spend most of my time sleeping. Ill get about six or seven hours a night, go to school, come home around three and then sleep until 8-8:30.

I just feel like a zombie. I never feel like doing anything and I always feel like I need more sleep but if I try to go to sleep early and get a better nights rest, I just cant fall asleep. I get irritable and basically turn into a beast if I dont nap straight after school, as well. Its like an addiction, I need a nap after school, I look forward to it all day.

To me, I dont think this is normal, and my mother hates it. Ive been trying to change my sleep patterns but its really hard to do that when it feels like Im constantly trying to play catch up with my sleep.

Replies/Advice would be greatly appreciated. Im so sick of feeling like this.

Can you slowly try and make your nap a little later each day? Then after a while it might just run into going to bed early.
I do know how you're feeling with the exhausted thing. I'm succeeding in one day of school and spend the next day at home catching up on sleep!
How do you normally feel when you don't have school? Is it possible that there's something at school that's getting you really stressed so by the time you've come home and you can stop worrying about it you're so exhausted from worrying all day? I'm not sure if that made sense, sorry if it didn't.
And remember the basic things before trying to go to bed early; no caffiene, no huge meals and those kind of things will make it more difficult to go to bed early.
Good luck on feeling better, i know how horrible it feels!
Tabby x

Ohh, I know the feeling, I'm a bit like that at the moment, too. Soo I don't really have any helpful advice, but anyway.

There's nothing really wrong with having a nap, but maybe it would be an idea to try and make it a bit shorter, and cut it down gradually? If you're sleeping for so long in the afternoon, that could be why you can't get to sleep earlier at night. Try to cut down on the napping, and do all the usual stuff, having a routine, no caffeine, etc etc, I'm sure you know all that.

Doing some kind of exercise can help. Not immediately before you go to bed, but maybe a few hours before. Also, maybe I'm just weird, but I find that if I'm making sure I get enough exercise and get out of the house and do things that I actually enjoy, I end up being less tired.

How is your mood, generally? If I'm feeling really awful I sometimes sleep a lot, and maybe it's not the case for you, but if so, it might be something to work on? If you're trying everything you can think of, and it's really becomng a problem for you, it might be an idea to go and talk to your doctor or something. You shouldn't be so exhausted all the time.

Hope things improve soon, good luck!

Tabby's suggestion of napping later and later each day is good and maybe you could combine it with decreasing the length of the nap.

six or seven hour's a night isn't really enough sleep which probably explains why you are so tired but because of your nap your body won't need sleep at bed time.

I know when I get into a bad habit sleep wise when things arent going great the most important thing for me to do is set a routine until my sleep pattern is normalised again. This for me is turning of the tele at say 10 then reading till 10:30/11 when my lights go off. Whatever happen's I get up at 8 and don't get back into bed until the following night. It's knackering the first few days but it does work. Maybe you could try something like that?

It may also be worth going to see your Dr. to make sure that you aren't aneamic etc. especially if your eating habit's arent brilliant.