Being beautifully bipolar can be tough to say the least. One minute you are lower than the ground you walk on, the next you are higher than the heavens. Luckily, there is some in between time where things seem to balance just so and you function like everybody else.
Depression is a part of bipolar disorder. It rears its ugly head in many different forms – irritability, lack of interest in just about everything, isolation, fatigue. It is different for everyone, sometimes a mix of these symptoms, sometimes other symptoms not even mentioned.
When I am depressed I suffer from severe fatigue. I simply cannot get enough sleep. I will be in bed for 16 hours a day, nodding on and off. It is kind of incredible – to sleep more hours than I am awake. My energy level is so low.
Sometimes when I am severely depressed I will forget to eat or just not bother at all. When you have no calories to burn, you get tired. Obviously this does not help me. When I am already tired, then starve my body of the calories it needs to create energy – you guessed it, bedtime.
Maybe you can relate to this, maybe you can’t, but I wanted to throw it out there so that maybe you won’t feel like the only one who suffers from this or that maybe you will understand someone else who battles fatigue. Please don’t ever think a depressed person is merely lazy. Fatigue is a real symptom of depression.
Even though you may be exhausted, try to get out of bed or off the couch, to socialize, to get some sunshine and exercise. These things will help. But know that if you can’t, if you need to sleep, that resting is okay and that your depressive episode will pass.
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    Last reviewed: 2 Dec 2013
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