Mornings and depression

[mdmc]

Do any Du'ers suffer from depression? I've noticed that the morning, especially early morning is by far the hardest part of the day to get through.
Its 6:11 a.m. and I got a day in front of me...
Any thoughts?

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

1. It depends more on what I have to get done that day .

Yeah I suffer from depression too .I tend to dread the mornings . I don't like the mornings because it means another day for me to fight but I start to get more comfortable as the night comes because when the day is over I have won another battle :). I feel more protected in the night .

[Nay]

2. Another depressive checking in here.

Getting up and going to work is not my favorite thing, esp. since it consists of boring duties and freeper co-workers. But it pays the rent, which is more than a lot of people can do these days. But I still yearn for long weeks and months and years where I don't have to be at the beck and call of these people.

[areschild]

3. Yes,

and mornings are always the toughest time. A professor where I worked (School of Public Health) said it was normal to feel depressed in the AM; that's when most people feel depressed.

[mdmc]

4. well, its an hour later

and I'm feelin better... some coffee and I'll be good to go.
Thanks for the input, DU!
:dem:

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

5. How long have you been suffering from depression ?

and have you found the cause of the suffering ? Mine stems from my childhood .

[mdmc]

9. I suffer from anxiety and depression

The first time I ever felt "depressed" was when I was eight. I had discovered that all things die (up to that point I thought only people with cancer or that go to war died). It bummed the shit out of me.
Pretty much I've always suffered from depression. I think the cause is existance and the feelings are neccessary to burn up negative karma.
Still, once I get health coverage, I'm heading to the shrink!

[moz4prez]

10. _

man, every morning i just want to die, is all . . . lol . . . i suffer from major depression and have since i was about eight. well, uh, it's sort of a stupid story but at that age i first found out about nuclear war and the end times and the predictions of nostradamus, or at least distortions of his predictions which claimed i among many would perish sometime in the year 2000. I LOST HOPE, and the will to live for a time . . . but seriously, doesn't EVERYONE these days seem to be suffering from depression? not to discount the diagnoses but just WHY are so many of us of bad humor?

as an aside: what were all of you losing sleep over at the age of 8?

[mdmc]

11. Gorillas used to scare me back then

I remember hearing on the news, "Gorillas attacked a bus in Gaza today." and so on... The "Planet of the Apes." It was all too much. I also remember Nostrodomus and nuclear war... scary shit.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

13. Me too !

With me I found out that we don't stay here forever when I was 5 with the death of my great grandmother . Really took a toll on me . When I was about 7 or 8 I found out the Rapture , Armaggedon and that the world will come to an end in the year 2000 . Plus I was bullied a lot in school , problems at home etc - and not just the rapture , Armaggedon stuff .

I know what you mean about everyone seeming to suffer from depression . I sometimes see a pretty flower and want to smile but my view is still tainted . I had my first panic attack in college . Worst thing I have went through ...

[jonoboy]

6. absolutely..can't get going till midday then theres no stopping me

[jonoboy]

7. I believe it's physical for everyone as well

studies show just before 6am is when your body is at it's lowest point so if you suffer from depression ( me) thats when you will feel the worse if you are awake ( me)..it helps to know that it's also a physical thing for me as I then know it can only get better..from then on your body recovers.

[izzie]

8. I just do not seem to have this trouble.

I lived with a MD for 40 years so I know how pesty I can be to you people in the morning. Sorry.I just like to wake up, as the day is new.I also know this does not carry over to husbands.

[Paragon]

12. Stay as hydrated as possible during the night

Run a humidifier, breathe through your nose, keep bottle/glass of water by your bed - whatever works. You already lose water during sleep, anyway - trying to wake up at all when you're depressed AND dehydrated is twice as hard. Give it a shot - you'll feel better.

[mdmc]

14. Water, huh?

I never thought of that. I don't have a problem waking up. Rather, I wake up early, then can't return to sleep. I feel like I have butterflies in my stomach.
The healthier I am, the better I feel. So I guess exercise and water would be very helpful.
:dem:

[Paragon]

23. Yes - exercise, too

Guaranteed to give you better sleep, so you're more refreshed in the morning.

[Snow]

24. Paragon, I'm guessing you're not an over-50 male type person....

hydration during the night is not a problem here. Doing something about it can be a pain in the butt, though.

"Ow! Who moved that chair? Why's the night-light off?" *yowl from cat* "So what're you doing sleeping there, of all places?" and so on....

[Faygo Kid]

27. Thanks for the laugh

Another over 50 type male relates, here.

[Squeech]

15. I suffer from depression

but it's no worse in the morning than at any other time. In fact these days I tend to get up early, and with as much vigor as I'm likely to muster all day. I don't actually *do* anything more involved than brewing the morning ZombyCoffee, because that's also when I bask in the light of the light box that my doctor recommended to try and get over myself. (It's definitely seasonal, and my long range plan is to become a migratory animal and go to South America every November. If there's still civilian air travel when I grow up.)

The other point about depression is, I don't think of it as disease. I think of it as plausible response to the real world. For example, before 9/11 it would not have been necessary to write the last clause of the previous paragraph, but now we have to think about such things, and that's not a sign of contentment.

[TrogL]

16. Are you getting enough sleep of the right type

Missing REM sleep can cause depression.

By any chance do you have organizational issues ie. ADD?

I'm able to kill two birds with one stone. I take long-acting dexedrine for ADD and it has the side effect of actually making my mornings survivable.

[AlienGirl]

17. Long-term dep here...

I was diagnosed with depression when I was four.

Mornings are the worst...when I'm feeling bad, morning means there's another whole day to slog through. The second-worst time of day is at night, alone in bed, knowing that the brief release of sleep will only lead to another morning...and also, often, unable to stop the anxiety thought-loops I fall into.

Tucker

[Faygo Kid]

26. Try reading every night

Gets me through. No help for the morning, though. Bless you, and best wishes.

[mdmc]

28. I read old bloom county

,dilbert, far side, doonsebury and calvin in the morning (I collect some humor comics). That really helps. I used to have a huge problem getting to sleep (due to anxiety). Weird, it kinda just stopped. Now I fall asleep pretty quick.

[Ernesto]

18. Had a shrink tell me......

that I drink too much beer & that is why I'm depressed..... I guess my depression had nothing to do with the fact that that my wife the mother of my young children was dying of cancer.... .. Years later, my wife is cured (we forced the HMO to do it's job), I drink all the beer I want & I ain't depressed...... So much for an "experts" oppinion..... The shrink did scrip me for Prozac & it was GREAT!... Did not get me high, but kept me from getting "low". @ $6.60 a hit, the HMO wanted me off that medicine in a hurry.

[sleipnir]

19. Yeah, that's why i don't get up until 10 am, much easier then...

but if you have a job, not much choice...the later I sleep the better I feel about the rest of the day on my Bush economy vacation...

[Skittles]

20. it's because it's a new day, mdmc

do you also become more depressed in spring? That's the season most suicides occur.

[mdmc]

21. Spring is the worst

I find Winter easiest (everyone else gets depressed). Misery, company.

[PVnRT]

22. I get the same feeling

and it usually just persists throughout the day.

[Faygo Kid]

25. Mornings, yes - incapacitating

I always get up early, but it takes me until late morning to be functional. Horrible time in my life. So sorry to see so many others suffering from depression, here. Never understood it myself until it struck me 6 years ago; been struggling ever since. Mornings are the worst, by far.

[mdmc]

29. hang in there

I always say, "hang in there, the dems need your vote!" I'd be dead if I didn't vote.:dem:

[regnaD kciN]

30. Not meaning to be flip here...

...but when you wake up in the morning and realize that it was not just a bad dream -- that Bush and his cronies really are in power -- how could anyone not be depressed?