Does anyone else feel happy in the morning, wiped by the afternoon? (depression)

[Carrotcakefiend]

Hi

I have been living with depression on and off for years, but the last episode began a year ago. I've been on Sertraline since August and it's helped. But...
...I am often in a good mood in the morning, and have some energy. Sometimes I have flashes of feeling happy. By 3-4pm I am absolutely wiped, all I want to do is go to sleep, and I feel unhappy and hopeless. I don't sleep brilliantly at night, but it has improved a lot and I have a routine I stick to 95% of the time (bed by 10:30pm, lights out by 11pm, up at 7:30am).

Does anyone else have a similar energy wave? Or feel so totally wiped all of a sudden they don't care about anything but going to sleep? DH has so much energy all the time, he's supportive, but I feel so alone.

I have this but the other way around, I am terrible in the morning knowing I have the whole day to get through. By 4pm I'm usually feeling a bit happier as I know the day is ending. I don't work and alot of my problem is boredom. I try to run in the late morning to break up my day. I don't have any advice just wanted you to know you're not alone 💜

I'm the other way round too - struggle in the morning, improve somewhat as the day goes on. Still hate living though!

Life just doesn't feel worth it sometime does it 😕

Thank you for showing me I'm not the only one! It's so frustrating, I just want to feel 'normal' again :(

I’m the other way round too.
Mines been triggered by a particular event but mornings are hell. I wake up and immediately feel sick. I’m literally counting the hours till bedtime. But by this time of night I usually feel ok. The mood swings are crazy.

I feel terrible in the mornings but by evenings feel so much more positive. I wonder if it is affected by when we take the sertraline ? I can feel really optimistic for example about doing a job I have applied for but everything is overshadowed or ruined by how I feel first thing in the morning because I know that I struggle to get up and couldn't face going to this particular role. It's just about all I can manage at the moment to roll out of bed and log on to my wfh job, knowing I don't really have to speak to anyone or do much work for the first hour. Maybe i should just get up earlier but then again I don't sleep well either.

I sometimes get this due to a health condition, if I can I have 40 minutes sleep. The trick is not to be down for more than an hour or you feel groggy or have insomnia.

I feel awful in the morning, my heart is racing when I open my eyes and I feel like I cannot breathe.
It’s really awful. I feel anxious in that way for a few hours and then it’s not so bad by lunchtime. It’s still bad but it’s less urgent. It periodically rears its head in the day at random times.
I cannot remember the last time I felt content, happy, relaxed or looked forward to anything. I’d give anything to be who I was ten years ago.

Sounds like atypical depression.