Sleeping 22 hours a day

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just after some advice from anybody with medical background. My DH has taken to sleeping round the clock. For example he has pretty much slept from
friday evening through to Tuesday each day only getting up for 1- 2 hours. Most of the time I check on him he is fast asleep.

he has been doing this on and off for the last year. He does have depression and other health concerns, but tests have ruled out anything serious. I said he needs to tell the GP how much he is sleeping as I think it is very unhealthy and doing him harm. He claims the gp said that if he needs to sleep, he should sleep!

I’ve looked all over google but other than it being a sign of depression, I can’t find other reasons.

if he was just in bed but awake I would agree it was depression, but he is generally in a deep sleep which you can tell from his breathing. He is also hard to wake up when I’ve needed to wake him. I’m not sure what to do and whether to put pressure to go back to the gp or not. He gets annoyed if I bring it up. He is not eating enough as he is always asleep.
any advice welcome

I would check he isn't diabetic tbh or something more serious especially if he's in a deep sleep

How worrying. I thought depression as well but that's been covered. I've only ever slept that much getting over serious illness and that's for a really short window.

No real help but a handhold.

I think it’s a question for the GP as it isn’t ‘normal’ but clearly your DP doesn’t want to address this?

In honesty I could not live with someone who did this and had no want to change it.

Is he signed off sick?
any children?

He is being utterly selfish
not pursuing with the gp
meanwhile you live with a 22 hour a day sleeping zombie

Tests have ruled out anything serious but how has the gp no other suggestions? 22 is on the extreme extreme end but I do think when you sleep the more sleep you get the more tired you are. Where did it start? Did he quit work because of this or another reason? How are the two of you as a couple? Does he not think it’s insane? (Because it’s hard to conceive that he thinks this is ok for you to live with too?)

What does he do in the 2 hours he is awake?

He was working until very recently but works from home. He would manage to work but often had a sleep at lunch.

He’a starting a new job soon so he does manage to hold down work (although god knows how as if they saw how little he does some days, but he is good at his job so fairly efficient so I think he gets away with it). It tends to do the 22 hours all weekend, but now he has some time off it’s almost all the time. Weirdly he has been up today.