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Posted by Natalie on April 16, 2000 at 11:03:39:In Reply to: Getting to sleep, waking up and depression posted by Kaori on April 15, 2000 at 20:02:32:
My insomnia was originally definetely a symptom of depression, so it may truly be the cause of it for me constantly. But last fall I had been off antidepressants for some time and was taking Ambien very rarely when suddenly I wasn't sleeping again. I kept insisting I wasn't depressed, and I really didn't wnat to go back on antidepressants. After giving up on all other ideas, I started the antidepressants in desperation, with the idea that I was taking them to sleep, not for depression. Within weeks it became very obvious I had been depressed; when I started sleeping I felt better, but when the antidepressants started having an antidepressant effect I felt a hundred times better.
I also know that I've had times when I've been diagnosed with depression and not felt depressed because I was so much more focused on anxiety; I thought I was just stressed out but I had all the symptoms of depression too. I knew that I had been depressed, but as the anxiety grew, I thought the depression was better when really I was just covering it up. And during much of that time, none of my friends even knew how depressed I was.
Anyway, that is just my experience.
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