I am currently struggling heavily with depression. Which impacts my quality of sleep. Sleep now has never been a talent of mine. So I generally make up for it by napping. I used to absolutely love it. Both the initial and the waking up (feeling well rested). But lately the waking up part is getting more and more difficult. It then feels like someone hung an anchor on my mental health. I am at that point in absolute disarray and so depressed it makes me feel anxious it’s so bad.
This may be above lemmy’s pay grade but still here goes. Should I stop taking naps? Also I’m thinking of taking antidepressants, anyone here have any experience?
Edit: Thank you all for the replies. I currently in talks with a therapist about taking antidepressants. For the mean time I have found that if when I wake up from a nap and just immediately get out of bed and go into the other room. It helps alleviate the “depressional” fall out that would normally follow.
Read up on sleep cycles and how long your body likes to nap! If you wake up from deep sleep you are groggy for a long time after.
I routinely get hammered till late but as long as I sleep 3, 4.5, 6 hours specifically, I’m fine. Even if I have 4 hours ahead of me, I wake myself up after 3 to snooze and not go into a deep sleep.
There’s a similar timing for naps.
Edit: I’m 35, that probably matters in context