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inability to wake up on time


Posted by Cassie on October 21, 1997 at 23:41:58:

I've read through everyone's messages and responses but I still do not feel like I have a solution in my hand to be able to get up in the morning. I'm 27yrs old, and have the most difficult time in getting myself awake and out of bed in the morning for as long as I can remember having to do so. My dad was always so frustrated with me- yelling at me that my alarm clock has been snoozing for over an hour, pulling off my blankents (for me only to grab them back with a bad attitude). The mom that was giving me a ride to school was always mad at me for running late. I chose late classes in college just because I knew that I couldn't make it to early classes- but was still late! I do go through periods of depression where all I want to do is sleep but am being treated for that with Paxil. That is going well but once all the medication leveled out in my body the problem of getting up in the morning still returns. I don't know if it is a behavioral
thing that I can change or what. I know that sometimes in the mornings I dream that I'm actually going through my morning routine and somehow that keeps me asleep thinking that I am doing what I am supposed to be doing. It just feels like it takes me brain a long time to wake up. I also find my self arguing with myself to get up or knowing that I have to get up but then starting to cut things out of my morning routine to just sleep that "five more minutes". It does not matter if I go to bed early or late- I mean I can tell when it is because I haven't had enough sleep. This is not the same. I am told that I do snore like a lumberjack- even on my stomach! This is a somewhat recent aquisition though- in the last couple of years. Before, I used to only snore when I was purely exausted. I just do not know what to do and I seriously need help. I have gotten in to enough trouble in my life for being late- after having to get up. I'm in a new job where my boss is beginning to notice and I love this job. I just recently started graduate school in psychology and feel kind of silly at not being able to figure this out on my own but I must ask because it has been an issue for such a long time and because it also affects my personal relationship where my partner is just livid when I don't get up to the alarm clock. Please help. If you need more info please let me know. Thank You.

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