When you're depressed...

[Dreamline]

After starting a mood log, I have noticed that for the most part I wake up feeling bummed out...then its gets worse until about late afternoon then slowly gets better until I am feeling mildly bummed again.  I just feel like crap right now and its about 12:30

I've read that in major depressive disorder, they typically wake up really early feeling horrible and can't go back to sleep, then as the day goes on they get better and better until they can feel almost normal before bed again.  They are more likely to have insomnia rather than hypersomnia.  Interesting huh?

[Phyllis]

for me it is during the middle of the day. It usually hits me like a ton of bricks then. And I have insomnia all the time. I wish I was sleepy all the time. I do take naps in the afternoon (see the relationship there? I feel crappy and take a nap). If I don't get a nap in, I feel emotionally like shit for the rest of the day and am pretty angry too.

[goosemuffin]

I'm usually depressed all day when I do get depressed

[Dreamline]

I get hypersomnia when I'm depressed.  Right now its not real bad and I sleep about 10-12 hours.  But when I have hit rock bottom before I would sleep about 16 hours, wake up feeling like shit, do nothing/lay in bed all day, midday would be worse (that's when I wanted to die the most), every little thing made me cry.  I could sleep and sleep but always felt tired no matter how many hours I slept.

[Paz]

 Once I crash, then anytime of the day could be depressing for me. And It's rare for me to ever sleep for more than 9 hours in a row, but when I am depressed, I nap a lot, which is unlike me, so everyone knows when I lay down in the middle of the day, that I am sad, and they are usually good about leaving me alone, though if I sleep for more than 3 hours in a row DJ will check on me & wake me up. That can last for days,or sometimes weeks. Then I just seem to wake up one morning and say,"fuck this, I am not sleeping my life away!" and I usually feel badly for retreating into myself, and having DJ have to entertain our son while I'm depressed and hiding.  It's almost like the guilt I feel snaps me back to reality 

[cadno]

I have no idea which sounds terrible, but I'm very unpredictable to the point that there is no pattern I can see in my charts.  The only pattern I have is that I understand the levels of my depression, I can easily figure that part out, but as for times of day, nope, ain't got a clue!

Rich

[SmilingElephant]

When i'm depressed i'm just depressed...no if ands or buts about it...and it can lasts for days.