Posted by shrinking on February 19, 2008 at 21:19:17:Hello. I am a 26 year old female who may have a sleeping disorder. I have had trouble getting up and/or waking up for as long as I can remember. Sometimes, it is is a matter of waking up, but feeling a strong pull back to sleep and not being able to stay awake and/or only wanting to sleep more and more. For example, sometimes I will wake up at nine and set my alarm for another half hour, wake up for that, then another twenty minutes, et cetera for 3-5 hours. Sometimes it is an automatic, and I am back to sleep seconds later, but sometimes I will get up and do a few things, then back to bed. I also will sleep completely through my alarm clock, loud music, my phone ringing, and even fire alarms on two separate occasions. I hate that I always want sleep. I feel like I am never fully awake other than maybe an hour a day. I lost a job a few years ago because of excessive lateness due to waking up late, I also had to drop at of school for being late too many days. As you can imagine, these are not the only consequences I have had from this. I feel like I am really lazy, but when I finally wake up, I love to move around and do a lot of things and pack a lot in the day. Throughout each day, I have that feeling of eagerness for the day to be over so I can sleep. In terms of falling asleep, sometimes I have trouble, but mostly I fall asleep right away. I usually get 6-8 hours normally and often 10-15 with the extra hours. I feel like I am missing my life. I started sleeping with the lights on a few years ago in an attempt to try to make my sleeping less "deep". This made it very hard to sleep, a bit easier to wake, but not easier to stay awake. If it was not for my family waking me up, I could easily sleep for seventeen hours on any given day (and this is what usually happens on days off). When this happened as a teen, I never had any caffeine or anything, and it still happened. Then I went through a period of life with a ton of caffeine from soda and coffee, and it still happened. Now I am a bit more moderate with caffeine-sticking to a cup of coffee or so a day. I have recently tried some energy "shots" to see if they would help wake me up. It does not seem like it. In fact, about a half an hour after taking a "six hour shot", I went back to sleep a few days ago. I am lucky to have a flexible job right now, as I would surely lose it otherwise. I feel like I am missing a lot of life. I know everyone says that they wish there were more hours in the day, but I think I could actually have more hours if I could just sleep 8 hours or 6 hours like a normal person and be done with it. I feel like I am wasting my life away, but can almost not help it. Is it possible that something is medically wrong with me, or am I doomed?
- Re: Is it a disorder? Sandman 18:55 2/26/08 (0)