Feeling tired/sleeping all of the time
 

I'm sure this question must have been asked many times, but does anyone else feel constantly lethargic?

I'm literally ALWAYS tired. I sleep around 12 - 14 hours a night (unless I'm up early for work, but I'm on leave at the moment), mostly uninterrupted. I can get to sleep easily on the whole, but struggle to get up, especially early mornings, and just feel generally sleepy for the whole day. If I'm not at work I will even nap for a couple of hours late afternoon!

I've felt like this since around age 12 (I'm 25 now) and it's never been resolved. I've seen GP's about it and they've always put it down to depression, though I'm not sure I agree. Despite this, I've had a few blood tests which came back negative.

So basically - does anyone else struggle with this and is it attributed to your MH? What can I do to manage this better?

When I was very very low I slept all the time (once my sister broke in because I'd been asleep over 20 hours and she'd gotten worried!). I think it's the body trying to protect itself and repair and just give you the rest you need. I did have blood tests one time and like you they showed nothing (as expected). Does it come and go or is it permanent?

Yeah it's constant. Some days I feel markedly more tired than others, but I'm always feeling that way to some degree. Sleep is always unrefreshing and I wake up always just wanting to go back to sleep!
It really impacts on my life because I sometimes end up cancelling plans with friends because I just can't be bothered and I'd rather go to sleep! I also very occasionally call in sick to work just so I can sleep all day. I know I can't carry on like this because I don't want a bad sickness record at work and I want to maintain friendships/make new ones.

Often it can be because you might be getting a lot of hours of sleep, but not deep or sleeping 'well'.

Good sleep hygiene is always a good thing to try to see if you can get your body to fall into a good and deep sleep. I often find every so often I'm sleeping 10+ hours but still tired and it's because of bad habits at the time of going to bed which is affecting what sleep I get, if that makes sense..?

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I feel you!

I'm so tired all the time. I'm sorry I don't have any advice to share right now but you're not alone.

Don't have any advice either I'm afraid but feel the same way!

How do you know if you are getting "good" sleep or not? All I know is I wake up unrefreshed and wake up twice on average throughout the night to use the loo then I'm back off to sleep!

I've thought about downloading one of those sleep monitoring iPhone apps but I'm a bit sceptical about their accuracy!

I think my sleep hygiene is ok actually...