bedtime ......
 

A less than a week ago i couldnt sleep.
now all i want to do is sleep..
i was so ill .
i didnt sleep properly .
now i seen my gp .
he gave me sleepers .
and now i've been tired all the time ,
these are not supposed to make me tired the dayt after but now all i seem to be is tired ..
what does everyone think is 7.30 too early to feel so tired your eyes go blurred and you physically cant move.
i woke up at 10.30 went out for a while and was back by 13.00 now i am shatterd :(
please vote on the best bedtimes just so idk i dont feel as bad about sleeping so early ..

To to bed when you are ready to sleep. My best time is around 22:00 or 23:00. I naturally wake up around 6am. Sometimes I nap too.

if i did that . it'd be 3 in the afternoon

Hey,

don't feel bad about it, I sleep sooo much!
On weekdays I go to bed no later than 10pm and get up at 6 and I often have an hour;s nap when I get home too. Weekends I sleep for between 10 and 12 hours at night then nap for about an hour during the day.

If you need to sleep, sleep, it is your body saying it needs too :)

When I was in a very demanding job [short term contract teaching a reception class on a rough estate in Chatham!] I would go to bed and sleep at 8 every night.
When I was most ill with my depression etc, I would sleep a lot during the day, partly because I felt safer sleeping then.
When I was recovering from gastro-enteritis all I could do was sleep then, too.
Basically, it's good to have a regular routine, but also to catch rest when your body needs it.
Living with depression and anxiety is tiring. Takes a lot of energy.

Now, I go to bed around 10, and sleep within about 15 minutes. I do wake up a lot during the night, as I always have done, but go straight back to sleep after going to the loo.
I find if I go to bed much earlier, the enhanced sedation of my meds wears off too early, like 5am.

well wow i am up late for me ..
its 11.16 and omg my meds are killing me
i am f**kd ...
blurreed sight and i cant speak and make sense ...
so night guys :)

same with me most of the time

I have trouble sleeping even though my meds are supposed to help with this.
I think going to bed at the same time every night can help by getting you in a routine etc. But sometimes it can just be your mind is too active to sleep. Sleepers can help but if you take them too late they can make you feel rough in the morning. I never know whether i'll be able to sleep though so often end up taking them quite late on. I usually try and be in bed for about 11pm so i've got time to wind down and try to relax - not that it always works!

I have a bad routine at the moment, 3 days a week i get up at 6am and have 2 days off so i dont have to get up,so its kind of up and down.

I go to bed at midnight at the earliest, if I don't take my Rx sleeping pills, that is...If I take them (Trazodone), I can be in bed by 9 PM and feel exhausted the next day at 7:30 AM, or feel exhausted even if I don't take them and go to bed at 3 or something stupid...So I can't win. :pinch: