Hello,
I am starting to worry. Gradually I sleep more and more. I don't know how to call it. Hibernation? Vampire? First off, I feel better in dark places and at night time. Day and dawn especially frightens me! In the dawn if I have to wake up forcefully to go somewhere (very rarely) I feel very anxious and very scared. Dawn is really scary to me Why? I start to function best when night falls. I feel most energized at night. But this starts to scare me. I fell asleep 5:30 AM it was still dark, but I woke up at 5:15 PM!!! Basically 12 hours of sleep, and it was already sunset. I somehow don't like day. I am in mostly dark room and I very rarely go out of, mostly dark, house. In this year just 5 times I were out of house. I like winter because night is very long then and sunrise is very late, 7AM or even later. But I got scared at summer. I get panic attacks and extreme anxiety when I can't fall asleep and it's dawning and birds start to chirp. It makes me so anxious that I more often just stay awake the rest of the day and sleep at noon or afternoon. I am like vampire, I dislike day. I don't function at daytime. Luckily I am vegetarian hehe. But I seen so much of bad things that happen if you oversleep. Higher risk of death... Coronary diseases etc. It's common symptom of depression. Oversleeping... But, I don't feel depressed. I am on antidepressant, not too high dose, not too low. Often I use sleep aid, but it isn't the cause of oversleeping. I am sure. When I don't take it it is same result. My psychiatrist said it's in genetics (my father did have similar symptoms) and that they can't do anything to put me into rhythm. So I gave up also. I don't care of rhythm. I don't, luckily, have to work. But it frightens me that I am in bed from 1 AM till 5PM!!! I have effectively 8 hours of "not in bed" state per day. I can't actually do anything concrete with so little time. Me and mom are in horrible existential situation. And she started to greatly oversleep. But I am sure we aren't depressed. I passed through depression. Lack of interest, feel of sadness, feel of worthlessness, suicidal thoughts etc. I had that, but I don't have it anymore. In fact, I feel quite happy. So... What is going on? Will I really die much earlier if I continue sleeping for 12 hours or more? I know that some times, especially during longer periods of daytime, I sometimes tend to undersleep even! Sometimes I just, out of the blue, start waking at 10AM, or even 8AM!!!! Just like that! Nothing changes, but that period lasts usually from week to maybe 3 weeks. Than it's back to oversleeping. Than it changes again. And I really don't have and can't have consistent sleeping pattern. If I go to sleep at 10PM, I can't fall asleep until 3-4AM no chance. And I set up alarm and try to stay awake so I can fall asleep easier next night, but at 2PM I get so strong fatigue that I collapse to bed and just sleep what I didn't last night. I was thinking of using stimulans to stay awake... But I took about 10 grams of guarana (equals to some 30 cups of coffee) and I thought I will stay awake. I felt tired and I slept just fine even with so much caffeine in my bloodstream. How can I get it to at least 9 hours per day? Please help I am not obese, I am not diabetic, I don't feel depressed... I don't drink anything that may make me so sleepy... But I just sleep and sleep...

Thank you for any constructive comments!