Hi Herc,
This happens to me too. I'm so tired in the morning if I slept. It's almost worse than not sleeping at all and so difficult to pull myself out of bed! I don't know what's up with this? It's hard to focus on things and concentrate on what I need to do at work. But I don't know, good question!

Thanks sunnydaze!

Herc, you have a nice choice of options, I'd say explore them all and find out what is causing it!

bec

For years now, I've woken up tired. I've come to accept it and I allow myself time in bed to try to wake up.

I'm tired even though I sleep from midnight until about 2pm... I'm always tired. If I get up any earlier I just fall asleep in whatever I'm doing...

I truly think this is just part of PTSD.

•• Herc, the constant ass-dragging tiredness? I was experiencing the exact same thing ... in fact I would spend pretty much all day in bed, most days, because I was soooo tired. I slept 12-14 hours a day routinely, plus naps, and I was still exhausted.

If I had to take a guess, I would say it is the excess/flood of stress hormones constantly bathing our brains, burning up our energy? It was as if I was running a marathon and solving the world's problems, 24 hours a day. That kind of exhaustion. And all I was doing was laying in bed? -- that's gotta stress hormones, totally.

•• As for sleeping on just a bare mattress with a blanket -- ditto for me as well!!!! Exactly!!!

Whether this is caused by PTSD or depression (I have both; my doc identifies the ambivalence/don't care attitude as depression) -- I finally decided, does it really matter? Either way, it is what it is.


So toss my token into the pool, I can totally corroborate those experiences. You're not the only one!

Bailey

I'm always tired no matter how much sleep I get. As far as fighting during sleep I do it all the time. I some times punch or kick things during dreams. I've mashed my toes many times on a wood TV tray by my bed.

Well, Mick

Now I know where the mysterious bruises I get sometimes come from. I was beginning to think I was waking around in my sleep bumping into things!

Even thought "good lord, am I going out and not knowing it"? I started noting the mileage on my car before bed and when I got up. I would be like"hung over" in the mornings and super tired. I really was beginning to worry and was getting afraid to go to sleep---fearing what I was doing in my sleep--partying, who knew? ! ? !

At least know I know I am tired because of the PTSD and I'm not loosing my grip!

One time shortly after I was out of the hospital from my stabbing in a drunken haze I left town with a friend who was going home which is about 1200 miles away. I woke up from my stupor half way there. Than my first night there I passed out drunk and ended up sleep/drunk walking around this small town. I was awakened some what by a police officer. I guess I'd walked by the station a few times. I must have looked crazy to him I was still a wild rocker I had on nothing but my leather pants no shoes or shirt in the rain with these fresh heart surgery scars on my chest and covered in tattoos. I thought I was back home walking to a friends house. He asked if I was OK I slurred something and he let me walk off lost. I had no wallet, phone or anything. It was one weird time slowly realizing where I was.

I have a hard time sleeping......my problem is...I wake up mad...for no reason. I really have to control this and it is something i work hard on but I always wake up pissed right off.....i don't really know why?

I dont know if this will help you or not, but my wife suffers from PTSD, she will turn on the T.V., leave it on all night, she says it helps her sleep better. I dont understand how the T.V. helps her, In my own thinking, it probably helps to shut off some of the chatter from her thoughts because she becomes interested in a program and falls asleep while watching it, so her mind stays busy trying to concentrate on the program and not file through any thoughts like it would if the room was quiet.