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Tiredness....
Okay I am really worried. For the past two months, I have been exremely tired. I go to bed around 10, wake up around 8 or 9, fall back asleep, wake up, fall back asleep, and I'm not even up until like 1:00pm!! I feel super groggy and unhealthy....I have talked to my doctors about this but they don't know or give me like a million reasons that don't feel right...I just wanted some opinions on what people think the cause of this is. Thank you
19/f
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I agree with Rumley; there are a million reasons for why; starting with teenagers just love to sleep.
Mono is also a possibility but that is something a doctor would have found by now. Did your doctor screen you for depression? Iron Deficiency, or other Vitamin deficiencies?
Not wanting to get out of bed is just one sign of depression, there are an number of other signs that need to be present to diagnose depression. At you present age I can see certain external and self made stressors placed upon you that you have not had to manage before. High stress levels is another of the signs of depression but still is not all of the signs required to make a diagnoses of depression.
Depression is a lot more common than people think, especially in teenagers in your age group. One survey I saw says that 1 in 5 or 20% of us (not just teenagers) suffer from some form of depression. The most common form is the one where the brain does not secrete one of the two chemicals that control depression. This is the most common and the easiest form of depression to treat. In a sense this form is a lot like diabetes.
Since the doctors have not found anything else wrong and to put one other medical reason to rest. Ask your doctor to screen you for depression.
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I doubt we can give you any better of an answer than the doctors. It could be a lot of things, like the doctors said. Could be depression, could be a nutritional deficiency, could be a medical issue. What, if anything, has changed recently? Lifestyle change? Diet? Illness? Relationships? Did this change suddenly, or has it been coming on for some time?
These are all questions I'm sure the doctors have already asked you, and they have a lot more information (your medical history, test results, etc.) to go on, but I'm just covering the bases as they occur to me.
One possibility is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which is often very difficult to diagnose.
Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
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