I suspect I get mild SAD in the winters. Not enough to feel truly depressed, just more of a constant low-level “damn, I wanna nap right now.”

It’s probably different from your case, but what helped me was a sunlight lamp (light therapy) and a grab bag of supplements - standard multivitamins as well as magnesium pills and vitamin D fortified milk.

Do you have a nerd neck? That sucks up a significant amount of your energy

I’ve had trouble with being sleepy at inappropriate times at least since my late teens. I almost always wake up feeling tired. (And before anyone says it, I have sleep apnea, but it’s treated. I didn’t notice a big difference when I started treatment.)

Yes, unfortunately. It’s something that I’m working on with multiple doctors and practitioners, and so far we’ve gone through some of the usual suspects (Vitamin D levels, checking thyroid function, making sure I wasn’t diabetic - already had my doubts on that one but I’m not the one with the medical degree I suppose…, etc).

My mental health isn’t always the best, so I’m trying to get that worked on as well because bad mental health can cause lethargy and chronic fatigue (it’s a two-way street though, the reverse applies too)… Unfortunately a lot of mental health meds have fatigue as a side effect which doesn’t help my case. It also doesn’t help that I have Crohn’s disease, and any autoimmune/chronic condition in general can also cause chronic fatigue.

I don’t know, I still feel like the root cause of it is an imbalance of something, but that’s my best “gut instinct” guess - I have nothing concrete to base that off of. It feels like all of the things I’m trying are just attempting to “brute force” the issues away, rather than treating whatever is the root cause, but I digress… All I know is, it feels like the game was rigged against me from the start.

Speaking from only my own last issues that were similar: I had a massive vitamin D deficiency. Was tired but had issues sleeping. Became depressed etc. Finally had blood work done/doc visit when I started having suicidal thoughts.

OP, just schedule a doc visit tomorrow morning, plz.

Anxiety is awful for me. When it hits, I just want to take a nap the rest of the day.

I was falling asleep all the time and all the places. Found out at the age of 23 I had a cyst in my brain blocking the liquids inside my head from flowing freely, thus affecting the whole of me in various and weird ways. Felt like shit growing up and hating everything. One brain surgery later, with complications of course, because why not? I felt like a completely new person, for good and for bad.

Things that might be helpful for people in here:

• Get iron levels checked. A lot of people are actually pretty low. Make sure doctor using more recent reference ranges, as there’s been a lot of bad outdated info about iron and infusions

• Glycine. It lowers your core body temperature when taking before bed which puts you into deep sleep faster and more frequently so you end up waking up feeling more rested with the same amount of sleep

i would if i saw the entire world as a giant bed.

A whole lot of things can be going on. Some vitamin levels can be low, it can be ADHD which just seems to get worse with age, and can also explain the anxiety. Of course capitalism plays a role.

But best thing is, get your blood levels checked, if it is a simple deficiency it is ‘easy’, otherwise you have to dig deeper, but of course, getting sunlight, try to go to sleep at a reasonable time, and eat healthy are things you could start doing right now.

Suss out medical causes through blood work, sleep study, etc. Work with your Dr on this.

Also work on sleep hygiene. Strict routime (go to bed and wake up at the same time every day), comfortable bed, cool dark room, preparation (nothing exciting, no screen use, no caffeine leading up to bed time), and mindset (we sometimes use headspace to help with bed time anxiety). My anxious kid has a weighted blanket and that helped him a lot.

Exercise during the day helps a lot with sleep and general well-being. I feel better and sleep better when I avoid sugar.

I don’t know how to learn decisiveness but I believe it can be learned through practice and I believe that being decisive helps you sleep. You know you did what you thought was right, there is less worrying about your decisions afterwards. My other son and I are this way and we sleep like babies. Speculation, there is definitely a correlation there for us so maybe it is causal.

Mostly tied of being alive. It’s terrible out there.

Get your Vitamin D level checked, just in case.

My brother was sleepy all the time. It came to a head when he fell asleep at the wheel. Luckily the car drifted off the road onto a grass verge and no-one was hurt. Turned out he had sleep apnea - his breathing stopped time and again through the night, waking him. He never ever had a good deep sleep. He now has a CPAP machine that keeps his airways open while he sleeps. He says he’s a new man.

ADHD, major depressive disorder, and bipolar 2.

Yea. Tired. All the time.