I've already had problems before with over-sleeping. It was extremely hard to get through this semester of school because I would always oversleep and never make it to class. I would set up to five alarms all placed in different areas of my room, and still not be able to wake. I would just get up, turn them off and go back to sleep. It's a horrible feeling because I feel like I have no control over myself when I am asleep. It's like something I can't break out of. My alarms were my only assurance for me waking up in the morning. Now I can't even hear them.

My biggest problem now however is that I can't go to sleep when I need to. I try and I just sit there and then I feel like I'm wasting time. So I'd just stay up until I had no control over whether I could sleep or not. I worked yesterday without having any sleep at all. It was hard and long. I don't ever want to do that again. But I feel like I might be working with no sleep today because it is now 6am and I can't sleep. Sometimes I'm afraid to go to sleep because I don't feel like I'd be able to get up so I can go to work. So I'd just stay awake all night and not sleep at all.

With no sleep I'm not even half of myself. I'm cranky, tired, aggravated, and most of all depressed. It's the a bad  feeling when you want to sleep, but can't. I'm severely depressed when I'm sleepy as well.

When I try and think about what could be wrong with me, I think about whats on my mind constantly. I'm so dissatisfied with my life right now. When I look toward a future, I don't see it. I've been working a dead end minimum wage job for four years and I can't seem to escape it. The people in charge there have got me driven toward the brink of insanity. I wish I could kill them all. I'm extremely unhappy with my social life that is pretty much non existent. Never really had a girlfriend. No friends. And I don't know why. Whenever I think about it, I can only bring it all down to just how much a lack of person I am.

I know this might be depressing to read. But please, anything.

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"If you wake up at a different time,
in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?"

You need to speak to your Dr I think. It's not normal to constantly oversleep and not be able to wake up. You could have something wrong that is causing you to be so tired. Maybe you're hypothyroid.. there are so many illnesses that can affect your sleeping pattern.

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Also, since the cause of your lack of sleep seems to be related to the worries you have about not waking up, is there someone else in the house that can come wake you up and make sure you get out of bed? That should relieve your worries about not hearing the alarm

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