Mornings

[Sue]

Does any one find the mornings are the worse?  Having to make yourself get up and face yet another  day.  I spend a lot of time at home by myself. 

[Sweetpea]

Definitely yes.  Ever since suffering with depression I have found the mornings hard.  I am better now several years on.  But I do still struggle.

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[stewart]

Hi Sue, and welcome to the forums.
in answer to your question is a big YES, its one of the many signes of depression.

[Sue]

Thank you for yours replies, I am realising I am not alone with this, lots of people suffer.

[Pip]

I haven't been a 'morning' person since my late teens even though I've always been able to get up at a reasonable time.  When I worked in London it took about 1 1/2 - 2 hours to get to work so I had to be up early.  It was a standing joke that if people got a grunt of me when they came in I was on or had had my first cup of coffee but if I was on my second cuppa I would say hello.  It's not so bad these days though.

[SteveW]

Hi Sue
There is no doubt that depression tends to be cyclical over a 24 hour period. But your morning the worst pattern isn't universal, not by a long way. There are nearly as many people getting more depressed in the evening. Depression tends to be cyclical over a longer period. If you read posts here you will hear people say they have had a good few days but then they describe slipping back. I have always regarded that as being just a more prolonged cycle.

Pharmacology came up with something relevant to cyclical changes. They came up with the idea that a number of symptoms could be regarded as a disturbance of the bodies 24 hour clock. Sleep problems being a particular example. So we now have a drug that claims to reset the body clock. It is called Agomelatine. I am surprised that nobody
here seems to have been put on it.

Anyway I wish you well.

Love

Steve