Is your depression worse at a certain time of day?
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206Raider
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yesah usually worse at night. I usually wake up depressed though becuase I have nothing to do at all so i sleep all day and if i wake up in the afternoon i feel completely wasted and depressed like i missed everything, but then i realize i wouldnt have done anything anyway and I had a nice sleep
Same thing with me. My depression is the worst in the morning first thing when I wake up. I feel scared that my depression will worsen throughout the day, and I worry what the day will bring, what pain, humiliation, insecurities I will have to face, its part of my anxiety I guess. The weird thing about this is that as the day progresses I start to feel a little better knowing that nothing to awful has happened and probably won't. Finally at night I feel ok knowing that I survived the day and now can end the day by crashing while watching t.v. or on the computer until I go to sleep.
I also feel worse during spring and summer months, they are the hardest, I hate summer. Fall and winter are my favorite. I feel as if mother nature is emulating how I am feeling thus making me feel less isolated, instead of a bright summer day with everyone hanging outside with their friends, thats when I feel mocked by mother nature lol (weird I know).
Darker Than Black
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mine is just worse when I'm alive, i feel much better after I've fallen asleep
VioletTears
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In the morning I'm usually too tired to care about anything but wishing that I could crawl back into bed. I think the more my energy goes up the worse I get. Energy tends to fuel the fire. By night I'm typically really depressed/anxious/frantic.
Littleghost
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my depression.. i think it's worse in the morning, when i have just awoken. then, during the day it gets slightly better (when i have something to do to keep my mind busy), and in the evening, it's low again.
but the sleepless nights were the worst.
now i have my pills, and i can get sleep, fortunately.
but the sleepless nights were the worst.
now i have my pills, and i can get sleep, fortunately.
lyricalliaisons
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My anxiety is worse during the daytime, because that's the time when I'm most likely to have to deal with people, & the time when there is the most noise. Both my anxiety & depression are worse during the summer than any other time of the year, for pretty much the same reason my anxiety's worse during the daytime.
crestfallen.
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I usually feel most depressed when I wake up. I'll just lay in bed, wishing that I could've slept for the rest of the day because I can't see much to look forward to. Other than days where I go out, my depressed mood doesn't brighten. Instead of improving, it just gives way to indifference and resignation about how my day'll go.
Oh, and summers and springs usually make me feel worse because the weather's sunnier, yet I have to push myself to find things to do so that I could go outside. However, I don't feel the same kind of despair on cloudy or rainy days.
Oh, and summers and springs usually make me feel worse because the weather's sunnier, yet I have to push myself to find things to do so that I could go outside. However, I don't feel the same kind of despair on cloudy or rainy days.
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langyuming
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Thanks for this site very helpful.
WeirdyMcGee
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nope.
I am equally depressed all the time.
If your depression worsens at some point in the day or gets better at some point, maybe you could use your observation skills to determine what conditions are apparent when you are not as depressed.
If you can figure that out, maybe you can do something to improve the low times?
Food- sugar/hormone levels can affect your mood as well as sleep and physical activity.
I am equally depressed all the time.
If your depression worsens at some point in the day or gets better at some point, maybe you could use your observation skills to determine what conditions are apparent when you are not as depressed.
If you can figure that out, maybe you can do something to improve the low times?
Food- sugar/hormone levels can affect your mood as well as sleep and physical activity.
vexatiousmind
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In the afternoon if I have nothing to do all day. I feel worthless like I should be accomplishing something.
And when I am laying in bed late at night.
And when I am laying in bed late at night.
decadent88
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Every morning as soon as I wake up.
coyote
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it's just the opposite for me
every morning i cannot bear to face the day
but, by evening i'm feeling good, relaxed, breathing a sigh of relief at having made it through another one
and vowing to make tomorrow different
Vampayah88
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I get the most negative during the evening/night. When i wake up my thoughts go in the opposite direction and im much more optimistic.
MaliceInWickedland
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Same here. It really hits me the hardest when I'm laying there in bed, trying to fall asleep, and then suddenly reminisce on something bad that transpired during the day or from the past and am immediately immersed in excessive bouts of insecurity and depression. I have a hard time controlling my thoughts, especially at night. It really sucks.
Deus_Ex_Lemur
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YES! Not always BAD but usually. I also think of smart things then too. SUCH AS - anything in a convo I missed, blanked out on, had "nothing to say"; lying in bed at night I think of the witty funny things or stories or examples to say. Like my brain purposely sets aside my neurons from accessing that stuff until I am lying in bed. SOOOO
A solution I'm contemplating is to start sleeping in sleeping bags - and then bring one to any social situation and lie down in it, and maybe then I'll be a social savant!
