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Old May 22, 2016, 12:04 AM
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Hi and welcome to the forums, MssDaisy!!

Often times with Bipolar, regular sleep patterns are disrupted due to the manic and depressive cycles. When one is going through mania, they are full of energy to the bursting for days at a time, or however long the period lasts, and they sleep very little. When the depressive cycle hits, the lack of sleep catches up to you and you wind up sleeping for days at a time, or are just plain unable to emotionally and physically will yourself to get out of bed, so you just wind up sleeping anyways rather than face the world.

I completely understand being dead tired all the time. My sleeping hours are screwed up completely due to a combination of an obsession with drinking lots of caffeinated soda, and my depression and anxiety. Whenever I run out of the soda, I find myself zombielike and unable to focus or function properly, so I wind up taking long naps to catch up on the sleep I lost during the caffeine binge.

I'm sorry you're also going through this. I know it's hard, but taking care to make sure you have healthy sleeping habits and are doing the treatments prescribed by your doctors to help cope with your Bipolar II. If you haven't seen a doctor about treatments for Bipolar, maybe look around and find one. The sooner you get to where you can manage to get those dramatic cycling patterns to better even out, the better you can manage to set a normal sleep cycle.

In the meantime, I would recommend a strong pot of coffee, if you drink coffee that is, or maybe taking a shower to wake yourself up. It might be hard to wake yourself up even to take a shower, but I find nothing is more soothing and wakes me up more than a nice warm shower and some caffeine.

Also consider going for a walk, granted it might be a bit too early in the morning for a walk right now where you live, but just getting up and moving around is one way to get your body awake.

I hope you can find something that works for you.
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