My depression is so bad that it gets to a point everyday when I just feel I can't participate in life anymore. As it is, I struggle to function during the daytime when I'm out of bed. It's just a bad rut that I'm in. My depression has caused me to really limit my activities to just those that pass the time, e.g., internet and watching t.v. I really have no interest/motivation to do much of anything else at this point, unless it's with my husband on the weekends or something. So I force myself to be out of bed until 5 p.m. and then at that point am tired of the internet and t.v. and just can't take being out of bed anymore. It's probably hard to understand. It's like I give up at 5:00 p.m. I was going to start a thread wondering if other people in depression spend time lying in bed when they're not sleeping. Maybe I still will. I feel really ashamed and embarrassed about this habit.

My sleep is actually pretty good. I sleep about 7 hours a night, with not much interruption in the sleep. I've heard that the bed should only be used for sleep and sex, but right now I just can't hang much past 5 p.m., and then I have to retreat to my bed.

I'm sure someday I'll look back on this and realize just how very depressed I was. The need to retreat to bed is obviously a sign of deep depression. When I get to the point where I go to bed when I'm ready to sleep and get up when I wake up between 7 and 8 hours later, that will tell me I'm not depressed anymore.

Thanks for your thoughts, guys. As I said, right now I'm in a bed rut that I just can't get out of.