Quick Depression Poll

[jt07]

This is just a quick poll to see how depression affects people. In my case, I eat more and sleep more.

[Cetkat]

I selected eat less, but I do both.. and sleep more.

[The Emperor]

I eat more and sleep more, unless I'm also really anxious, in which case I eat less and sleep less. But often I'm too shitty to give a damn about anything to be anxious.

[AnneMarie]

Those are symptoms of melancholic (sleep less, eat less) and atypical (sleep more, eat more) depression.

[SashaSue]

I'd guess you'll get a lot of responses following the atypical pattern, as we have so many bipolar members, and I believe atypical depression is the more common kind in bipolar.

[llama44]

I think Sashasue will be right.

I voted in that manner. I've had atypical depression sx since I was a young teen off and on.

[Sras]

I eat less and sleep more

[lysergia]

I'd guess you'll get a lot of responses following the atypical pattern, as we have so many bipolar members, and I believe atypical depression is the more common kind in bipolar.

that's interesting, i didn't know that.

for almost fifteen years my depression manifested in "sleep more, eat more". the last few episodes have been opposite. i eat less food but more sugar, and i WANT to sleep all the time but sleep less/wake up constantly. is this common, to have changes in your usual manifestation like that over time? (on basically the same meds?)

[humanoid]

I eat more and sleep more, a lot more in both cases.

[StormBeforeCalm]

I guess I'm the odd one out here. I eat more and sleep just the same. Severe anxiety causes me to sleep less, but depression and mild/moderate anxiety have no effect on my sleep at all. Then again, my husband claims I could sleep through a bomb going off.

[HAL9000]

I might be confusing my anxiety with depression but insomnia is a big issue. I do lay in bed when I'm depressed (I just don't sleep much) Food I don't care much about when I'm down.

I guess I'm the odd one out here. I eat more and sleep just the same. Severe anxiety causes me to sleep less, but depression and mild/moderate anxiety have no effect on my sleep at all. Then again, my husband claims I could sleep through a bomb going off.

[Odetta]

I can do all three for each one. Just depends. If I'm denying I'm depressed, I tend to eat more. If I'm anxious, I eat less. Same with sleeping.

[GrayEyes777]

When I go through bad spells, I totally lose my appetite and then totally lose my ability to get sleep (they kind of go hand-in-hand with me).

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[cinnamaldehyde]

I'm an "eat less, sleep more"

It's interesting though... at different times in my life when I've been depressed, I would pick different answers. Like about 6 years ago, I would have been an "eat WAY less, sleep WAY less"

[Guest Vapourware]

I'm one of the "eat less, sleep more" crowd. My appetite really goes down the toilet when I'm depressed, while I sleep more hours.

[Artemisia]

I currently (at 30) eat less and sleep more. When I was a teenager, I ate more and slept more.

[whatfcknvoices]

Eat less - sleep more - crave sugar, i could eat it out of the packet with a spoon sometimes, i wake up hungry at odd times ie. 3 am and crave junk food.

[Mim]

I have no interest in food, but crave sweets, especially chocolate. I sleep drastically more, but am restless.

[Catnapper]

I eat more, and sleep a lot, but I never feel refreshed or rested, just sort of really dull and underwater. Plus any sort of meal schedule goes out the window.

[kianaaacakes]

I've been slowly becoming more and more depressed over the years, so it's a bit difficult to say where things change. When I was 15 I randomly started sleeping a lot more, but my sleeping habits have not changed at all since, and it's been years. There was also a brief time in my life where I was becoming depressed and ate more, but it only lasted a few months, and then went back to normal, even though the depression didn't get better.

As for short-term, like when something bad happens and I'm very depressed for that day, my eating decreases a bit. I think it has something to do with feeling guilty or ashamed, or just because crying or having knots in my stomach clearly doesn't make me feel like eating.