Brief Sleep deprivation causing instant temporary stop in depression. Why and how?

[metalhead1]

i am curious if this directly indicates that i am indeed bipolar in which i was currently thinking about.
I feel i have borderline personality disorder, is it possible to have BOTH BPD and Bipolar?

I woke in the afternoon today around 4 pm and its now 6 am and i felt the change around an hour ago. Its as if whatever send out signals to my normal

fear of death and of my family members thought process STOPS giving me a painfull feeling that will usually cause myself to be depressed and lasts for aslong i am awake

but i come back to my baseline when i wake from the next time i sleep.

Ive since developed a backwards sleeping pattern since i cant give up staying up since its the biggest relief i get to feel from the daily, inside my head
nonsense im currently dealing with.

Currently on Adderall, xanax, zoloft, invega.

and last im just curious on whats going on in the brain when the change happends where i become so much less depressed. Is this a dopamine thing? serotonin? or just
unknown at this point?

thanks for reading

 

[Jabberwocky]

You know - I've not experienced what you are having but I do notice on some nights when I am sleep deprived (6 hours) that I genuinely wake up in a better mood.

What you're experiencing is a raise in dopamine levels and most likely noradrenalin as your body is now going into overdrive to keep you awake. I'm not sure what disorder this may suggest but if you're genuinely feeling a huge relief in depression it's likely due to that. When you take your adderall do you feel your depressive mood lift?

 

[pasha]

Bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder have a relationship, are separate but can co-occur.

I think the fact that your sleep depriving yourself is causing your brain function to slow down, directly taming your obsessive thinking that's common in depression. When you wake up (or in most cases shortly after waking up), and your mind has the energy to think, it fuels the obsessive thinking, this is where you and many others may suffer a lot.

Whether this is the case or not, sleep deprivation is very unhealthy both physically and psychologically.

Talk to your psychiatrist about this issue, tell him/her about your discovery, and ask him/her whether or not you have the psychiatric conditions that you suspect.

 

[Serotonin101]

REM sleep causes the brain to breakdown a lot of neurotransmitters. preventing REM sleep has shown to elevate ALL neurotransmitters in the brain which has been linked to aiding in some mental illnesses. some antidepressants have been shown to stunt or prevent REM sleep at certain doses and is hypothesized to be linked to their effectiveness in treating these disorders.

 

[bronson]

Moving this BDD --> TDS