I am currently struggling heavily with depression. Which impacts my quality of sleep. Sleep now has never been a talent of mine. So I generally make up for it by napping. I used to absolutely love it. Both the initial and the waking up (feeling well rested). But lately the waking up part is getting more and more difficult. It then feels like someone hung an anchor on my mental health. I am at that point in absolute disarray and so depressed it makes me feel anxious it’s so bad.

This may be above lemmy’s pay grade but still here goes. Should I stop taking naps? Also I’m thinking of taking antidepressants, anyone here have any experience?

Edit: Thank you all for the replies. I currently in talks with a therapist about taking antidepressants. For the mean time I have found that if when I wake up from a nap and just immediately get out of bed and go into the other room. It helps alleviate the “depressional” fall out that would normally follow.

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      2•2 months ago

      Not sure why you’re being downvoted.

      Swedish(?) studies show probably 86%+ of people are D deficient, and most significantly deficient. And low D causes all sorts of dysfunction. (For example IIRC, it has an important role in glucose metabolism, which affects everything).

      We just don’t go outside as much as we need to.

      Only takes minutes a day in most locales, and don’t need a lot of skin exposed.

      There’s an app (definitely on Android, but think it’s also on iOS) called D-minder to find the time of day you can get proper exposure for your body to produce D.

      Supplements can help, but they fall short of the effectiveness of sun exposure.