Does anyone else have sleep disturbances that don't seem to be directly related to their emotions (depression, anxiety, etc.)? I wake a lot at night...I've been trying to make myself go to bed at 10 every night to keep in the habit of good sleep patterns. I wake up so many times every night, I'm still exhausted when I get up in the morning. And I don't wake with depressed or anxious thoughts throughout the night...just waking, moving and trying to go back to sleep.

My arms lose circulation easily, and for weeks that's been what I thought was waking me. A couple of nights ago I took a muscle relaxer, and I finally slept all through the night - my husband (who moves a lot in his sleep) fell asleep in the living room and I don't think he woke & came to bed until early morning. That may have been a part of it. Thinking it was the meds, though, I took a half dose last night. I woke over and over, but never from my arms tingling. There doesn't seem to be a reason, unless my husband was moving around a lot. He came to bed middle of night sometime...I woke be before and after he was there - and I don't remember him moving much.

ARGH! I can't figure it out and I am desperate to get back to sleeping normally. It's been months of this! Maybe even a year or more...I didn't really track when it started. Is physical insomnia (not from too many thoughts/emotions) part of depression?