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I have chronic sleeping problems therefore I love(d) taking naps but waking up afterwards is absolute hell. What should I do? Edit: I have found a short-term solution (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am currently struggling heavily with depression. Which impacts my quality of sleep. Sleep now has never been a talent of mine. So I generally make up for it by napping. I used to absolutely love it. Both the initial and the waking up (feeling well rested). But lately the waking up part is getting more and more difficult. It then feels like someone hung an anchor on my mental health. I am at that point in absolute disarray and so depressed it makes me feel anxious it's so bad.

This may be above lemmy's pay grade but still here goes. Should I stop taking naps? Also I'm thinking of taking antidepressants, anyone here have any experience?

Edit: Thank you all for the replies. I currently in talks with a therapist about taking antidepressants. For the mean time I have found that if when I wake up from a nap and just immediately get out of bed and go into the other room. It helps alleviate the "depressional" fall out that would normally follow.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Usually the recommendation is to take short, no longer than 30 minutes naps. Supposedly, after 30 minutes you go into deep sleep and waking up will make you feel tired. I haven't reviewed the scientific validity of the claims, but it has always worked for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yep. Either take a 15 or 25 minute nap, or go for the full sleep cycle of about 1-1,5 hours.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

What works for me is: lay down and relax, close your eyes, but try to not fall asleep, think about stuff you did, about stuff you want to do, whatever, just don't fall asleep. If you manage to maintain a good balance between not relaxing too much and not stressing too much (that's the tricky part), you'll stay in a semi-awake state. Rest like this for 20-30 minutes and you should feel better

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

That's an intriguing idea.

It probably explains why napping works for me - that little bastard in my head pulling the strings takes forever to sit down and shut up, so I kind of nap like this already. It takes most of 20 minutes before he sits down, I barely fall asleep and my alarm goes off.