Why does depression worsen insomnia?!

Hey, I'm sorry you're feeling so bad.

You're not too young to suffer from depression and anyone who says that doesn't know what they're on about. Depression is often because of a chemical imbalance in the brain and this can be caused by life stresses or a hormonal imbalance or a mixture.

Depression doesn't always cause insomnia, it sometimes causes the reverse where you want to sleep all of the time. But it does affect your sleep pattern either way. I've had depression and I did suffer from insomnia too. It's a horrible vicious cycle once you get into it and I guess it's the anxiety that's often linked to depression that causes it. In turn the insomnia, then makes the depression far worse and it's often hard to determine which has caused what and function normally in the day.

The best medicine for insomnia, is to try and break the cycle of worry. You will survive the day even if you don't sleep and you've got to try and stop obsessing about whether or not you will sleep or not. That said, that is not easy I know. Other things to do are don't take naps, stick to a regular bed time and get up time and do relaxing stuff like a hot bath or reading before bed.

If it carries on, see a doctor, there are many treatments out there for both depression and insomnia.

Hope you feel better soon.

Insomnia usually gets worse when someone is stressed or anxious or overworked or... There are lots of things which can interfere with our ability to relax and get into a normal sleep cycle. If you google sleep hygiene rules or similar you will get some sensible ideas on good practices. It tends to get worse when you lie awake worrying about how much you need a good sleep and how tired you will be the next day if you dont get to sleep now.

you should go to doctor.