Posted by Dinah on November 29, 2002, at 9:22:14
In reply to Re: Sleep cycles and mood, posted by Larry Hoover on November 29, 2002, at 9:13:12
I'm in a depressed phase of my cycle right now, and after a few days of sleeping really nonstop, I now find myself falling asleep easily but waking very early in the morning totally unable to go back to sleep. An extra klonopin will sometimes get me back to sleep but not until after a fair amount of time. I'm not anxious or energetic. I'm just awake.
When I'm hypomanic, and when I'm in a nasty agitated depression, I have trouble falling asleep and trouble staying asleep. It seems all parts of my cycle involve either under or over sleeping.
I do find that when I'm depressed, sometimes a sleepless night improves my mood. And when I'm hypomanic, a full night's sleep inevitably brings on a crash. So usually I associate good mood with little sleep and depression with too much sleep.
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