Hypersomnia

[Metalhead]

I feel like sleeping most of the time these days. Just curling up under the covers and entering the world of dreams. My personal energy is close to nil. I spent most of last weekend just sleeping the hours away.

This can’t be healthy.

 

[tree]

What are you eating, and when?

Have you had a change of medication?
What about caffeine?

Is this nearing any sort of (unhappy) anniversary date, for you?

 

[Metalhead]

What are you eating, and when?

Have you had a change of medication?
What about caffeine?

Is this nearing any sort of (unhappy) anniversary date, for you?

I am eating very little these days. Just not been hungry.

No changes in medication, although I have cut back on my caffeine intake.

 

[tree]

What are you eating, when you do eat?

Meals?
Or, just picking up whatever's easy when it's either
eat or you'll puke?

Or maybe you don't experience lack of food that way.

You've cut back on caffeine, but still having some.
How much, and when?

What about sugar?

How often do you go outside?

 

[Nervous Rex]

No changes in medication, although I have cut back on my caffeine intake.

Caffeine works by blocking adenosine receptors (which tell your brain that you're tired). So, with those receptors blocked, you feel less tired. The brain responds by growing more receptors, so that the same amount of caffeine will only block some receptors and your brain can still tell when it's tired.

When you reduce your caffeine intake, you suddenly have a surplus of adenosine receptors. I have read that it takes about a week for your brain to reduce the receptors to the normal amount. During that time, you can feel extra tired and possibly get caffeine-withdrawal headaches.

I'm sure that reducing your caffeine intake is better than cutting it off cold turkey, but there will still likely be side effects.

As @tree suggests, regular meals, exercise, and sunlight will help.

 

[Mary Terry]

@Metalhead - Try to differentiate between whether it is solely physical or a depressive mental state. Then you'll know better how to handle it.

I'll always remember our talking about Buffalo chicken wings late one insomniac night. Maybe you need some wings to perk you up. I don't mean to be flippant but like @tree is asking, are you eating properly?

 

[Metalhead]

@Metalhead - Try to differentiate between whether it is solely physical or a depressive mental state. Then you'll know better how to handle it.

I'll always remember our talking about Buffalo chicken wings late one insomniac night. Maybe you need some wings to perk you up. I don't mean to be flippant but like @tree is asking, are you eating properly?

I am eating around 1000 calories a day, which I know is too few.

 

[Metalhead]

I have had zero motivation to do much of anything in the last couple of weeks. I have had to force myself to keep moving.

All the while, I feel regrets over giving up my movie website 12 years ago because my mother was attacking it from every imaginable angle. That site could have taken me somewhere better in life than where I am now. I was too cowardly to say no to my family, and that destroyed me.

 

[Thinx]

I disagree that you were cowardly. My understanding is that your family have been and are abusive to you, from childhood onwards. They traumatised you with abuse. So, survival, then recovery, has been a long and difficult process, requiring much perseverance, and obstructed by the ongoing abuse.

Most of us would fail sometimes on such a road, and end up trying to placate the ongoing abuse. It's part of the learning process that enables us to understand ourselves and our situation better, and to test out the ongoing intentions of the abusers. Your mother and family built on the childhood abuse to undermine you further as an adult.

The past is the past. You have learned a lot in those 12 years, and you are a very different person now. You may have felt destroyed, but you weren't, and here you are.

I think you would feel tired and weak on so little food. You're better off eating more and getting fitter through exercise. Did you decide about whether you may move yet?