Why Depressed Thoughts Mostly Occur at Night

Depression, the most common mental illness which is consistently affecting many of us and the rate of depression is increasing day by day. Depression symptoms are normally identified by the victims only and the surrounding people of the victim get to know it very rarely. Depression can affect both men and women, but mostly seen in women. Depression is not really an easy health issue to deal with, for everyone.

Depression at close glance

Anxiety and depression can pop up in your head anytime. Some people wake up in the morning with depression and emptiness feeling, some experience it whole day, some get it in evening and people like me feel it at night time. Well, depression is something like you know you are drowning in the water but you are helpless, want to come out of the water but you are unable to find any way to save yourself. Depression at night time tends to become far more overwhelming, as I think this is because at the night, we get more lonely time to think and slow down as at the day time we have lot more things and work to get done and the various noises around us easily drown the sounds of our own depressed thoughts.

Reasons why depression occurs at night

#1. Most people have the tendency to over think about the things when they get some spare time. Doing this, can push you into the intense cloud of negative thoughts, hence drown you in depression at night and ending up with lots and lots of tears.

#2. Work stress is another reason which yields depressed thoughts. People over indulge them in work and pressure, and too much work often result in failures. And the failure after all day work, gets nurtured at night when it’s replayed in the mind of that person, making the person realize that he/she is a loser or whatever happening is all brutal and he/she is doomed.

#3. Distractions for a depressed person works best and worst at the same time. All day distraction keeps a person busy and far away from depression and anxiety which makes a person feel better, but when the day get’s over, at the night, the only sound which is audible is silence, and then comes the dark cloud of bad, negative, sad and all kind of anxiety and depressed thoughts.

#4. Family is the most important section of everybody’s life, but if any disturbance hits the family creating all messed up environment by fights and arguments, negative thoughts take no time to reappear at night mostly.

#5. Emotional movies, or messages or videos after dinner can activate your weaker part of mind stimulating the negative and depressed thoughts to run all around your mind.

#6. Consistent failures in work and personal life can make anyone feel low and helpless. And more worse, when there’s no one to help or to share with. All the negative thought gets accumulated in your mind and explodes at night when you are most weak by mind and heart giving you more and more depressed feelings. Some people even become so helpless and low that they even feel like committing suicide, however, these suicidal thoughts occur only at night times.

#7. Loneliness is another strong reason, which gives rise to depression. If a person is not in a relationship or not married, or even staying separate and busy that he/she has no one to interact except his work and working staffs, then that person is more prone to depression at night, as he finds himself busy at work all day and no one beside him/her to share his/her troubles and issues after work.

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Anxiety and depression are somewhat inevitable, as life is full of ups and downs. All we can do is keeping ourselves busy and active in some creative ideas, or hanging around with friends or indulging in our hobbies. I am not saying, this will make your depression vanish from your life completely but, could help you to reduce your depression level to much extent. Trust me, it does!!

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