Sleeping too much

[Olimar]

I've seen a few posts on here about insomnia, but I have the opposite problem right now, sleeping too much. I've just woken up from an after lunch nap, that lasted 5 hours, missing an appointment. They rang and texted me but I slept, through all that, I felt so bad saying sorry I was asleep. I'm constantly worried I'm going to be late for work too, as I sleep through all my alarms. But all I can think about now is going back to sleep at bedtime. Anyone else have this problem?

Yes I have this problem too. Weirdly I have suffered from very bad insomnia so when I can sleep, boy do I make the most of it. Recently I've been going to bed at about 8.30pm and getting up at about 11. I'd suggest getting a checkup if you can, heart rate/ blood pressure and iron in the blood can effect your sleep I think. I need to do the same to be honest. Sending sleepy hugs your way.

@Geogaddi if I was posting a couple of months ago, it would be about how I was not sleeping more than 3 hours max at night, but was still full of energy all day. But now I've gone the complete opposite way, sleeping all the time and no energy or motivation to do anything. In fact I've just got into bed now as I can't face spending another couple of hours awake, when I can easily just go to sleep instead. And that's after sleeping 10 hours last night with a 3 hour nap during the day today!

that is strange isn't it? I'm not a doctor or anything so i can only share with you my experiences to see if any of these relate to you, but i can very much relate to not facing staying awake. In my experience, i suffer from high levels of general anxiety, every day, all the time. This sometimes manifests itself into depression, but mostly it's a nice big negative monologue in my head all the time. I also live on my own at the moment, so this is a really big factor in why i sleep so much, because being awake with my brain is exausting, sleep is the perfect break from thinking.

Do you have anyone in real life you can talk to about this? sometimes helps to talk about it to a friendly ear.

Yes I have people I can talk to but mostly they are not too interested as I am still just about coping with life in general. They also say it's just my body catching up on sleep I've missed, which is kind of true but it doesn't make it any easier to live with.