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Getting up!

Whats-His-Face

Anyone else struggles to get out of bed? I set my alarms to get 8 hours sleep but I just can’t get up! My alarm will wake me up but I’ll just lay there drifting in and out of sleep for hours, but even if I’m awake I’ll just lay there for hours, or go on my phone or spin my computer chair around( I know, bit random lol). 
I don’t get up to go toilet or get breakfast or a drink or anything. Even if I have something I want to do it’s still a struggle to get up. 
Do I maybe need more than 8 hours? Or could it be depression, I know that manifests differently in atypicals, we don’t tend to fell really sad and low like NT’s do, or at least that’s what I’ve heard. 

  • in reply to Deleted User

    yea, thinking bout it, it is a struggle still but a lot less.

  • in reply to Whats-His-Face

    OK what's about something you *need* to do? If I happen to wake up early at the weekend, it's often easier to get up than during the week for work. I don't need to get up at the weekend,  but do in the week.

  • in reply to Deleted User
    Whats-His-Face said:
    Even if I have something I want to do it’s still a struggle to get up.

    lol

    Also at this present time i dont really have things that i have to do, i mainly do things that i want, when i get out of bed that is lol

  • Is it that you're too tired to get up or just don't want to do something you have to do? I have always struggled getting up. If I am off work but my partner is in there are times too when I've stayed in bed, not even got up to make a brew. Could it be to do with executive functioning? 

    What I have found which helps is to go to sleep working backwards from 7.5 hpurs when my alarm goes off, or just a bit more. Our sleep goes in 1.5 hour cycles so 7.5/1.5 = 5 rounds of sleep.  So not waking up during deep sleep feeling groggy. Of course it doesn't matter how I feel upon waking up, I still struggle actually getting up. I still put my snooze on several times. 

  • in reply to Mytwenty

    I did that the other day, slept from midnight to 1pm, had the groggy head feeling then though lol

  • You could try getting more than 8 hours and not set any alarms and see if you feel refreshed after that, and then if that doesn't work, as you said, it could be something medical like depression, or maybe anaemia idk 

    I've also been struggling to get out of bed too and I keep hitting snooze. I don't even think I'm fully sleeping when I hit the snooze button