11-14-2017, 09:22 AM
Hey everyone,
I am talking about when it gets so bad that you are making deals with yourself to be able to get out of bed. There is little talk about this kind of depression (diurnal). You usually feel somewhat better by the middle of the day and nearly normal by night time. There are many well known researchers who believe there's a physiological cause behind this. I am not quite certain that it has to be all that complicated. I think that all depression certainly contains an element of anxiety. When a person first wakes up to begin their day, they are at their most vulnerable emotionally. They have the entire day ahead of them. It was relatively peaceful laying there in bed. It's almost rational to want to spend the entire day there. But for some people it goes beyond that. Over my years of counseling I have heard hundreds of different techniques used by people who simply cannot get out of bed. I had a male client in his twenties who would set up alarm clocks in 3 different rooms. The first alarm went off 1 hour before he really had to be awake. He would shut that alarm off and walk to room number 2, where the alarm was set to go off 30 minutes later. When that alarm rang, he shut that and moved to room number 3. The alarm in room number 3 was set for the time he actually had to wake up. His theory was that just the walk from one room to another would make it easier for him to get up after alarm number 3 rang. I've had others who have tried bolstering themselves with drug or drink about an hour before it was time to wake up. That would often backfire and leave them more tired than they were, and they would simply give in to the feeling and go back to sleep. In the course of hearing these countless techniques, I still have never heard one that was foolproof. Does anyone here have a favorite way to go about this? I would be interested to hear what anyone has to say, as I still suffer with this issue. Even though I have heard hundreds of supposed solutions to it, nothing has worked for me except pure will power. There has to be an easier way. What do you all think?
I am talking about when it gets so bad that you are making deals with yourself to be able to get out of bed. There is little talk about this kind of depression (diurnal). You usually feel somewhat better by the middle of the day and nearly normal by night time. There are many well known researchers who believe there's a physiological cause behind this. I am not quite certain that it has to be all that complicated. I think that all depression certainly contains an element of anxiety. When a person first wakes up to begin their day, they are at their most vulnerable emotionally. They have the entire day ahead of them. It was relatively peaceful laying there in bed. It's almost rational to want to spend the entire day there. But for some people it goes beyond that. Over my years of counseling I have heard hundreds of different techniques used by people who simply cannot get out of bed. I had a male client in his twenties who would set up alarm clocks in 3 different rooms. The first alarm went off 1 hour before he really had to be awake. He would shut that alarm off and walk to room number 2, where the alarm was set to go off 30 minutes later. When that alarm rang, he shut that and moved to room number 3. The alarm in room number 3 was set for the time he actually had to wake up. His theory was that just the walk from one room to another would make it easier for him to get up after alarm number 3 rang. I've had others who have tried bolstering themselves with drug or drink about an hour before it was time to wake up. That would often backfire and leave them more tired than they were, and they would simply give in to the feeling and go back to sleep. In the course of hearing these countless techniques, I still have never heard one that was foolproof. Does anyone here have a favorite way to go about this? I would be interested to hear what anyone has to say, as I still suffer with this issue. Even though I have heard hundreds of supposed solutions to it, nothing has worked for me except pure will power. There has to be an easier way. What do you all think?