Is it normal to miss classes and sleep in all day?

this may sound hard to do but it often helps me when i can't sleep at night.

I would power through the next day and then go to sleep at 10pm no later than that and then when i wake up in the morning it feels great and i go to sleep at night again.

so i just repeat this when it happens again.

You sound like me. I sleep in and skip classes because I have little to no motivation to actually drag myself out of bed and go. The way I see it, it's an overly long bus ride to a place that I hate to do stuff that bores the hell out of me with no immediate rewards. Why would I want to lose sleep over that? Do you think this may apply to you as well, that you're sleeping in because you subconsciously don't want to go there?

Even if you sleep a lot, going to sleep later could make you more tired than usual and feel tired the rest of the day. I know because I've done it a lot, especially during vacations. Snd during school. Even if you dont want to go to sleep. Do something that you know will relax you. once you get proper sleep you will be happier and feel like sleeping earlier. Your brain rests best from 10pm-3am, so going to sleep before then would be ideal. Or at least go to sleep before 12pm. You'll feel much better and sleep a normal amount.

Its challenging for me to just get off the toilet to live life. Half the day everyday

Normal, but abnormal. I don't know.

Get ur parents to wake u up every morning. The shouldn't just let u sleep in that's not good for u. If ur parents wake u up every morning you'll get use to that sleeping pattern

your medications don't sound like they're working for you. i would see your psychiatrist, tell him/her about this and have your depression re-assessed.

I sleep all day and stay up all night. I have morning classes so I just stay up from 11PM-2PM. Sometimes I miss class but they are for other reasons. I force myself to go though because I only have two more weeks left and to spend so much money just to fail bothers me more than being too tired to get up.

What's the reason you stay up til 3AM?

Anyways when I first started staying up all night I still went to class even though I was dead tired and depressed so it's not impossible. The worry and stress about wasting my money and missing classes was enough to get me up although there were days I skipped. Sorry I'm not much help!

You could try drinking Valerian tea or taking the capsule version. That root does wonders for me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerian_(herb)

I was in a similar position to you back at school:

I would stay up until dawn, sleep for 2 hours, get up, walk in a haze of fatigue and morning sunlight to school, have to engage in some basic cognitive gymnastics and be expected to do well, "this desk feels cool against my cheek. Ah the drone of the kids around me is like some kind of glorious lullaby. Am I dribbling? The insides of my eyelids are dark. It's like it's night time. Mmm. Sleep." Then the inevitable rude awakening. After several days of sleep deprivation it really takes its toll on you. I got into the habit of making up excuses, skipping school, handing everything in late. All in a fog of self-imposed tiredness, exacerbated by some issues with depression and anxiety.

From my experience, it's a behavioural problem that you really need to address as quickly as you can. If you don't get the hang of it now, it's likely to bleed into your adult life and effect your job prospects, relationships etc. I still have problems with my sleeping pattern now and I'm 23. It's cost me a job in the past. It probably comes down to self-discipline, organisation, will-power and foresight.

I'd suggest going to the doctor who prescribed you medication for depression. Discuss therapy options. Try and get some counselling and see how you can control your sleeping habits more effectively. Also discuss the fatigue you've been experiencing and see whether it might be caused by or exacerbated by the type of medication. Good luck :)

this is not cool. Stay away from all technology at night. Try exercising before you eat dinner. Also remember that you have no excuse for being depressed. You obviously have caring parents, pay no bills, and blah blah blah. Seriously, the word DEPRESSION should ONLY be used by older than 40yrs of age when they realize that they fucked up by sleeping away their school years, not able to get a job that would let them do all the fun things in life, and their kids don't respect them. NO ONE under 40 has a reason to be depressed.

Now, I don't know if you're in high school or college Either way, you can't have gone this far then say fuck it. It's stupid.

drop out & join the circus as sleepy the clown