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Originally Posted by BabyCakesHunt
my husband both suffer from depression and anxiety.my anxiety just seems to come n go as it pleases but my hisband ,wheile he experiences it throughout the day it always seems to get worse at between 5-7 pm. i can see it on his face,his body language.it dosent seem to matter what happened during his day the evening is the worst for him.is this normal? there dont seem to be any triggers for him at this evening time. anything and everything triggers mine but i dont know how to help him.we r both on the same medications.its just in the evenings,now matter what hes donin or done everynight it gets worse.....any thoughts or suggestions?
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I get something very similar…I never realized other people experienced it. I have two explanations for it:
1) people are designed to be up during daylight and asleep at night. Because we live relatively far from the equator where people originated (and where the days are longer, i'm not suggesting people in scandinavia *should* sleep twelve hours a day), and use all kinds of artificial lighting, it screw our systems up, essentially it's protesting that it's not being allowed to go to rest as the sun goes down.
2) people with depression can have very hard times with transitions--like it's hard to go to sleep *and* hard to wake up, because they're both transitional states. Dusk could be similarly distressing because the body is changing from light to dark conditions.
don't know if this helps you. maybe you (he) could try getting up at dawn, and then using a lightbox to ease the early evening transition, and then getting to bed at a reasonable hour (9?) and see if that helps