Is it normal to not want to go to sleep?

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Over the past year or so, I've been feeling quite depressed. I won't into the details too much, but it's safe to say that it's making life quite difficult for me.

Something it has really taken a toll on is my sleep. I've never been one to sleep very early - since around the age of 13 I've always stayed up quite late. But this was just because I was pre-occupied with things.

Recently, I've been staying up insanely late because I just DON'T WANT to go to sleep. Within the past week, I've been staaying up 'til around 5am because I so desperately don't want to sleep. And even when I do settle down, I just lay there without closing my eyes because I don't want to sleep.

I've kind of pin-pointed the reasons to be that when you are resting, you're not being distracted by anything, so are left to your own thoughts in your head, and mine usually aren't very nice (i.e depressive). And I also think that it may be perhaps because of how I'm feeling right now, I don't like to go to sleep because it means I have to wake up to another day.

I'm not sure if any of this is making sense, but I'm becoming exhausted because of this, and it's making my depression worse.

Is it normal?

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  • Karmasbitch
    10 years ago

    This used to be VERY normal for me. I used to stay up all night almost every night for years. It became quite the habit. I just simply did not want to sleep, I felt that I had better things to do like clean, or organize. Nowadays, I sleep a lot. Thank god! But yeah, normal for me.

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  • DancingGardner
    10 years ago

    Well you know what the answer is, eat organic, exercise, and find something to do that you enjoy, dancing, guitar playing, putting models together.

    Get out of your rut, try new things, meet new people, help at a non-profit.

    Pills are not the answer. It is the old fashioned hard work of eating and exercising and enjoying life. It takes work.

    Get out there man and make yourself do it until you will finally wake up and enjoy it!

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  • johnathan
    10 years ago

    Need a councillors

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  • ThousandPoundsOfGanja
    10 years ago

    It's normal for me, ever since I stopped going to church, I imagine death to be like a everlasting sleep and since my brain has nothing to do while I'm trying to go to sleep I begin to focus on that and start freaking out and I can't get myself to go to sleep, it's quite annoying when I really want to sleep and I begin to think about death and then I can't.

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  • GoraIntoDesiGals
    10 years ago

    It's weird because as a fellow depressed I love to sleep because I'm away from my shit life but sadly I suffer from insomnia.

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  • RoseIsabella
    10 years ago

    Do you tend to have nightmares?

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  • Hottigene
    10 years ago

    Also sometimes what you need Love is a Good Long Cry maybe you should.lie down and bury your face in your pillow and just let it go dont stop until you have cried all those excess tears out Love and then maybe you could sleep .

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  • Hottigene
    10 years ago

    Well you should gi see somebody like a therapist maybe they could help you didnt say what is Depressing you also are you a girl and how old are you maybe your at an age where it brings on Deppresion .

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