Hi all....everything I have read says that you eat more when you are sleep deprived, are more anxious, are more depressed, are more emotional....and yet when I try to get more sleep I feel absolutely physically horrible when I do finally get up, and my anxiety is through the roof worrying about all the time I "wasted" sleeping.

For example, I usually get about 4 hours of sleep - from about 2:30 - 6:30 am but if I try to sleep longer and stay in bed until noon....then I am up to 4:30 - 5:00 am the next day - and the following day I will be up to 3:30 am or so as well....ie I immediately deplete the "extra" hours of sleep I got. It is like my body says hey, what is this? You added more sleep and I didn't want it so I will keep you awake longer to compensate and get you back in that sleep deprived mode again.

Does this sound unusual? I don't know if my depression and anxiety and eating habits would be better if I got more sleep, because every time I try, I feel hung over and my body rebels by keeping me up even later to make up for it.