Anyone else here sleeping their life away?

I seem to often be tired and sleep WAY too much. I love sleeping, but I am wasting my life away with it. I can easily sleep 12 hours and my record is TWO FULL DAYS.

Any suggestions? Anyone else in this boat, or should I say bed?

Change your work.

My work doesn't really affect it, Haff. The problem is weekends and holidays. During the normal work week, I have a routine I am forced to stick with.

Change your work.

Thanks Haff! 😢

Haff, do you ever have useful moments?

Works for me.

What do you do?

Change my work.

NO, for a living! Sit on the computer?

I was in same situation for a year ago. I had a good payment but very routine job. I could handle this only for 1 year. Couldn't wake up in the morning at all. Just thought of going to work was making me extremly weak. But when I woke up for something else except job, I was pretty energetic. Oh and yes, I couldn't wake up at weekends when nothing was awaiting me to do. I was sleeping till 12:00 every day on holidays (keep in mind I was going to bed at 23:00-00:00 at night). I knew that my excessive sleep need was due to my job. My Piscean nature simply couldn't handle more than 1 year.

Now I work in very creative job and there are no traces of same problem at all!

Have a nice day.

I am in a creative field as well, you do designing? Do tell. 🙂

Designing is boring for me. Would cause me be sleepy again. Yet, my job is to develop organisation (using computer, paper work etc) in company I am working in. I always think about new ways of making work faster and cheaper which keeps me awake.

I guess that would take some creativity. Fukk a guy I work closely with needs some serious help with that. He's a great designer but chaotic in the head. I swear he's gonna go postal one of these days! haha, he says he'll keep me alive though. Wow, that's refreshing. I definately don't let my work go through him, he'd forget to do it or something. Maybe it's A.D.D. Would you call that a real disease?

My sleepiness is about worn off, I'm really trying to avoid coffee to give me a boost, I think they just overheat my office, maybe it's the flourescent lights. I do like my work too, I just want to sleep away......

I'm a taurus and I sometimes get like you do also. I have a routine for work each week and I have to be up early but all I want to do is keep sleeping and can't. And I look forward to getting off work so I can go home and lay down and go to sleep. Do you every have problems getting to sleep at nite tho?

Sometimes, but I'm a wine drinker so a couple glasses of red, a nice dinner & relaxing for a few hours will usually send me straight to my ohhhhh-so-cuddly blankie. 🙂

Sends me there too!

ADD I don't think is a real diesease,it means that your bored to the extreme so anything else is bl_ah and doesn't set in.Sleeping alot is a sign of depression.

...or partying too much. 😢

I hate how doctors are labeling kids with so many different "reasons" already. It's like toughen up! These "diseases" never used to exist. I know I'll be barked at for saying that, but look at kids now. THEY are showing MOST parents who's boss already too. Parents say "oh it's ok, they have A.D.D. , yes son, whatever you want, oh you can't learn that? It's ok, you go play video games for awhile."

"Parents say "oh it's ok, they have A.D.D. , yes son, whatever you want, oh you can't learn that? It's ok, you go play video games for awhile."

That excusing it yes,it's not that difficult to know how to deal with ADD kids you just have to keep them interested so it's lazy on the parent if they put them on drugs or let them get away with everything.My brother had ADD but he was a VERY behaved child even with standards and chores and stuff put on him,it wasn't until the school wanted him to be put on the drugs that it got worse.It was because the ADD drug that was prescribed to him cause bi-polar disorder which makes moodswings extreme like in terms of being voilent when angry.The only thing the teachers would've really had to do was just to get his interest in another angle to be able to teach him the stuff,you know pick something they like and make it fun so it actually sets in instead of doing the normal routine or ignoring him.With all the education flying around on them they should be concentrating more on the real how to's towards teaching them without the drugs(they do know them too) otherwise your just letting them learn nothing for not putting the extra effort into it.

Or okay ADD-attention defesit disorder,meaning they have short attention spans if they aren't interested in the subject or activity.

weeeeeeeeell, being a parent now, hehe, i'll keep an eye on my daughter's behavior 😉

hi everyone!

did you all have a nice plunge into 2006? hope so! i almost slept into the new year (wasn't sleep the topic here?), was so tired. but i forced myself to stay up till midnight, had some rockets to shot into the sky!

how was your start into 2006?

back to ADD now. i think i suffering from it, too. it's not too bad, not ruining my life but i really can't concentrate on (important) things that i really do have to concentrate on, as soon as it's something that i'm not really interested in. therefore learning has always been a struggle for me...

and yes, i agree with both of you, tia and taurusgoddess - drugs and ignorance is the easy but wrong way!

i think that diseases like ADD are society and life style related, that's why they really might not have existed a hundred years ago.

what you think?

Oh yes! Totally, 2 working parents to start probally don't help, and then overloaded classes for the teachers just carry that on. Kids are following their examples in the way that they see it. Their parents/teachers spend brief momemnts with them & quickly on to next kid or job or meeting or...

Of course you can't spend every waking moment teaching your kid but it's good to teach early on, and also make that time Quality.

my dad is a taurus, too. he used to "to yell at me all the time when i got out of line" just the same, seems to be a taurus males and kids thing. i know taurus females to be really patient and understanding with children. anyway, yelling had the opposite effect on me. i went really quiet. i have difficulties being loud. but maybe that's just me... 😉

My dad's a taurus too! WOW the discipline, eh? Yikes shaped all us kids up real fast. Looking back I'm thankful now.

Hey,Lizzy,that e-mail finally loaded the pics of the baby and shes gorgous,and again congrats on the little arrival.🙂

I lucked out and got an aquarius daddy(the only stable parent but was decent to not be too unreasonably strict either),my moms crazy though shes a scorp/libra cusp in all the wrong ways.That brothers a aqua too and actually if you were to check out his charts you wouldn't be surprised he already had ADD and turned to Bi-polar when drugs screwed him up.Aqua sun,scorpio moon and "gemini" rising lol,guess maybe if we looked at his charts back then it would've been no to the drugs.

thanks tia! 🙂

what exactly is bi-polar? i read that often but don't know what it is.

Oh man! My aunt has it and I dated a bi-polar guy once!

what is bi polar— bi sexual? or what? NOW ANSWER! GRRRRRRR>>>>>>> lol

ta 🙂

Bipolar disorder (also known as manic depression) is a treatable illness marked by extreme changes in mood, thought, energy and behavior. It is not a character flaw or a sign of personal weakness. Bipolar disorder is also known as manic depression because a person?s mood can alternate between the "poles" mania (highs) and depression (lows). This change in mood or "mood swing" can last for hours, days weeks or months.

Symptoms of mania - the "highs" of bipolar disorder
Increased physical and mental activity and energy
Heightened mood, exaggerated optimism and self-confidence
Excessive irritability, aggressive behavior
Decreased need for sleep without experiencing fatigue
Grandiose delusions, inflated sense of self-importance
Racing speech, racing thoughts, flight of ideas
Impulsiveness, poor judgment, distractibility
Reckless behavior
In the most severe cases, delusions and hallucinations

Symptoms of depression - the "lows" of bipolar disorder
Prolonged sadness or unexplained crying spells
Significant changes in appetite and sleep patterns
Irritability, anger, worry, agitation, anxiety
Pessimism, indifference
Loss of energy, persistent lethargy
Feelings of guilt, worthlessness
Inability to concentrate, indecisiveness
Inability to take pleasure in former interests, social withdrawal
Unexplained aches and pains
Recurring thoughts of death or suicide

thanks tg! 🙂

Yeah TG gave you a great rundown of it,my brother tried to kill himself when he hit a low depression episode and is going to jail soon for 2 years because he was going into an agressive episode when the dude mouthed off and started a fight with him.He understands that he's going to jail for good reason though and has somewhat learned to control it but yeah,it's still a constant hoping he doesn't experiance another episode during an intense moment again.The dudes okay now but he did spend a month in the hospital from getting physically beat up(broken bones,dislocated joints,reconstructive surgery on his face,etc.he looked like and had the injuries of as if he got hit by a truck or something cause my brother basically blacked out and had no clue what happened until he woke up at the police station) during the episode due to the he(the other guy) wasn't aware of the bipolar thing and didn't know that backing off from the arguement was the best thing to do when it happened.And well,you know what happened when my sister cheated on my bipolar brother-n-law,it's not that bad so long as nothing "intense" happens to the individuals causing an extreme of all extremes in mood swings.They can function and learn normally when a episode isn't involved.

^^thats how the astrology comparison worked,aqua;independant,intelligent and revolutionary,gemini;intelligent,curious,short attention span when bored,twins going to opposite extremes,and scorpio always looking for something deeper:and all three need constant mental stimulation so it's kinda looks like it'd be ADD prone from those 3 signs alone and then when drugs mess it up with those 3=BIpolar seems very likely too.

Ya it got pretty serious when my ex would freak out. He threw someone through a wall, well - his dad and they threw him in the mental hospital. I think he's been back 3 times now, each time starting in the rubber room. BUT, when he was good, he was great, I mean so intellectual, we had amazing conversations and so much fun. Apparently they get pretty compulsive about sex too. I didn't stick around to find out though, he was too nuts. Although he was pretty agressive!