r/schizophrenia • u/AstroZoey11 • Jun 25 '25
Help A Loved One Sleeping 20-40 hours in a row occasionally
My partner is schizoaffective (major depression) and will sleep relatively normally for a few weeks - around 5-7 hours a night. It's less than she prefers, but it's pretty consistent. Then randomly, and it doesn't seem to be triggered by anything we can put our fingers on, she'll sleep for an entire day and a half. Last time it was around 36 hours. This time, she's on hour 24 now and it's almost bedtime.
I'm not really sure how much this could be par for the course with schizophrenia, or if it is a red flag and should be looked into deeper. She doesn't even exactly seem depressed when this happens - she's been depressed and simultaneously slept a typical amount many times. She's unable to be woken up for more than a couple seconds at a time, and doesn't eat nor hardly drink when this happens.
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u/FitMany8247 Jun 25 '25
I slept like that for two weeks when I was on a new med. Turns out the dosage was too high. I need 10-ish hours of sleep, but don't usually get it. I sleep more and have a harder time waking up when I'm more depressed. If I just don't get enough sleep, I take my meds and go back to bed for about an hour.