I feel perpetually sleepy.
I have a hard time napping during the day- scratch that I can’t nap during the day. My anxiety makes it impossible. However the second I crack open a book I feel like I’m going to pass out. It’s very strange.
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I’ve had trouble with being sleepy at inappropriate times at least since my late teens. I almost always wake up feeling tired. (And before anyone says it, I have sleep apnea, but it’s treated. I didn’t notice a big difference when I started treatment.)
My brother was sleepy all the time. It came to a head when he fell asleep at the wheel. Luckily the car drifted off the road onto a grass verge and no-one was hurt. Turned out he had sleep apnea - his breathing stopped time and again through the night, waking him. He never ever had a good deep sleep. He now has a CPAP machine that keeps his airways open while he sleeps. He says he’s a new man.
Suss out medical causes through blood work, sleep study, etc. Work with your Dr on this.
Also work on sleep hygiene. Strict routime (go to bed and wake up at the same time every day), comfortable bed, cool dark room, preparation (nothing exciting, no screen use, no caffeine leading up to bed time), and mindset (we sometimes use headspace to help with bed time anxiety). My anxious kid has a weighted blanket and that helped him a lot.
Exercise during the day helps a lot with sleep and general well-being. I feel better and sleep better when I avoid sugar.
I don’t know how to learn decisiveness but I believe it can be learned through practice and I believe that being decisive helps you sleep. You know you did what you thought was right, there is less worrying about your decisions afterwards. My other son and I are this way and we sleep like babies. Speculation, there is definitely a correlation there for us so maybe it is causal.
Get a sleep study done. You likely have sleep apnea. You’re likely overweight as well.
Get healthy. Get a CPAP. Get ATLEAST 7-hours of sleep a day (if you do you won’t need naps).
I’m not overweight, and I don’t snore. My partner says I rarely make any noise while asleep.
Mostly tied of being alive. It’s terrible out there.
I feel you on this.
A whole lot of things can be going on. Some vitamin levels can be low, it can be ADHD which just seems to get worse with age, and can also explain the anxiety. Of course capitalism plays a role.
But best thing is, get your blood levels checked, if it is a simple deficiency it is ‘easy’, otherwise you have to dig deeper, but of course, getting sunlight, try to go to sleep at a reasonable time, and eat healthy are things you could start doing right now.
I used to. It was you could say „severe hormone imbalance”. Now after fixing that I have more energy than I ever would need honestly to the point I need to go running or something.
Unless I don’t sleep well then I just wait for the night whole day which happens more often than I’d like to. I need to be asleep already at 12 am and wake up at 8-9 to sleep well.
Problem is I work/think/focus best at 10pm-12am and I need to time my cbd oil into that to sleep. And considering the stuff makes me high for some reason even tho it shouldn’t theoretically then it gets complicated to schedule it all for optimal sleep.
In any case the oil removed anxiety from my life so that’s nice, maybe not completely I still get nervous some times y know but it’s big difference
Used to, then I started jogging 30 minutes a day
I workout an hour on the elliptical every day and get sweaty AF. I go pretty hard.
Good advice. Cardio won’t fix fatigue, but a lack of cardio will induce it. It’s an easy place for OP to start, and if they still feel fatigue after two weeks of daily cardio they know to look elsewhere.
Yes, but it’s because of multiple sleep disorders and neurological disorders. It’s best to get a polysomnogram to determine if you have anything wrong with your sleep patterns. If that yields nothing, then a CAT scan may be in order to determine if anything is wrong inside your skull. If that also returns normal, then at least you’re otherwise healthy.
Source: had to go through all of this
If you have access to it, consider getting a sleep study done. There’s a bunch of different things that can cause daytime sleepiness that all need to be treated in different ways. If it’s something like sleep apnea it’s really important to get it treated ASAP.
It’s super annoying too because you’re not going to necessarily have any idea anything unusual is happening after you go to sleep, unless you have a partner that brings it up.
Also if you don’t exercise and get good cardio in daily, anxiety and sleep will be issues by default. It’s crazy how sedimentary some of us are. If I don’t exercise for a week, I get massive anxiety, am unreasonably tired during the day but can’t sleep well, and the next few days my pores are dripping sweat, until I get back on cardio track and go back to not sweating much.
Cardio is as evolutionarily necessary and inbuilt for humans as pooping and sleeping, and – funny thing if you’ve experienced a panic attack before, you just feel like you have to run. It’s insane how much gunk is cleaned out if your largest bodily organ when you run. From pouring stinky sweat for a couple days to barely sweating. And the sleep, energy and mood quality difference is also insane.
agree with everything you said here, but if im not the pedant someone else will be – sedentary, not sedimentary. At least I don’t like to think I’m sediment
Thanks, I thought the root word felt off as I was typing it.
it happens, they’re super close :) i know I’ve made worse mistakes lol
speak for yourself
Agreed on the cardio thing. I run pretty regularly but a knee injury has put stop to that for the last month or so and I’ve just been miserable and bad tempered. Last time I felt like this was when I quit smoking.
If it’s something like sleep apnea it’s really important to get it treated ASAP.
Sleep apnea is also linked to heart diseases, it’s a really serious thing to left unchecked.
To add to this, get your blood work done. You could have a lack of iron or something.
Do you have a nerd neck? That sucks up a significant amount of your energy
I found out in January that, every now and then, when I’m asleep, my heart stops for extended periods. 8 seconds, 5 seconds, 4 seconds.
I wore a heart monitor all March and it happened 3 times. But never when I’m awake.
Now I have a hard time sleeping. (3:48 AM)
I hope you’re seeing a doctor or medical professional about that. An unsteady heartbeat can be very serious.
A bunch of them! Yeah! Next step is a long term monitor under the skin. If it’s happening during the day, that’s a quick trip to a pacemaker. :(
Even worse when you’ve been tired af the whole day but as soon as you lay in bed you are wide awake and it takes an hour to finally fall asleep.
Oh yes, I hate this and it happens often. But slowly less after trying to be more fit.
I suspect I get mild SAD in the winters. Not enough to feel truly depressed, just more of a constant low-level “damn, I wanna nap right now.”
It’s probably different from your case, but what helped me was a sunlight lamp (light therapy) and a grab bag of supplements - standard multivitamins as well as magnesium pills and vitamin D fortified milk.
Anxiety is awful for me. When it hits, I just want to take a nap the rest of the day.
