Morning struggle to wake up?

shiseido_faerie

Hi All
I just put this as my status but then thought I'd pose the question to a larger audience!
For the past week I have been really struggling to get out of bed in the morning, I mean I have to fight to make my body do it, I don' know if it's the darkness outside or what, it happens every year around this time. My boyfriend told me this morning i looked like the walking dead and asked why I get like this. Does anyone else experience this this time of year? What do you do to make it stop??

shiseido_faerie

I should add that while I have experienced depression and SAD in the past, I actually feel pretty good this Year, we've had an unusually warm and snowless winter so far with a fair amount of sunshine!

_Emu_

thats how I am most mornings! cannot get up, I think its mainly because its dark and cold, its definately easier to get up in summer

kirstysnan

If we lived in the natural world we'd be half hibernating. To bed with the sun and up with it too. Even my early bird husband is struggling just now. SAD has a lot to do with it though!

shiseido_faerie

If we lived in the natural world we'd be half hibernating. To bed with the sun and up with it too. Even my early bird husband is struggling just now. SAD has a lot to do with it though!

Agreed! I do SO much better if I can just wake up on my own as it's getting light out. Forcing myself to get up when it's still "night" looking outside is very difficult. I realize pretty much everyone has to get up in the dark this time of year, I just wish I knew how to make it easier.