Can't stay awake and feeling faint all the time?
Hey! I've had anxiety and depression for quite a few years now and during the last 10 months everything went downhill. I started to get panic attacks that lasted for hours and my depression took a turn for the worst. I'm anxious about everything. Most of the time I'm only leaving the house about once a month, sometimes not even that. Getting out of bed became too much. My short time memory is pretty much non existent. One thing that got worse and worse over the last few months is the fatigue and the dizziness. I'm sleeping about 10-11 hours every night. It's a bit like I'm in a coma because nothing wakes me up. Even when I have an alarm set I simply turn it off and turn around and continue sleeping, I don't even remember turning it off when I get up some hours later. I can't keep myself awake for longer than 5-6 hours. I always have to take a nap for 2-3 hours. Afterwards I'm staying awake for about 5-6 hours again and then go to bed and have my 'regular' sleep. I'm dead tired all the time. I'm falling asleep standing up. I'm feeling faint all the time. Even when I'm laying down I feel like I'm going to pass out. Even simple things like taking a shower are too much. It feels like the most exhausting thing in the world. My legs feel extremely weak like I might fall to my knees at any given second. When I get out of the shower it feels like the room is swaying. I often feel like I can't breathe. I'm walking down the stairs and I immediately feel weird and dizzy and like I can't get enough air into my lungs. I've mentioned some of this to my doctor once but he simply told me it's the anxiety and depression. I'm not taking any medication. Are those things normal? Is there anything I can do to make this any better?