Are sleep problems related to mental problems

[Tom2020]

I have trouble sleeping. I need to take more sleeping medication in order to sleep. And when I do that, I over sleep. I slept 13 hours last night after taking a few sleeping pills and cold medicine. And now I can not sleep. I need to take more meds but it is making me feel weak and drowsy when I am awake. Why am I having these sleep problems? Is this mental?

 

[Tom2020]

I have trouble sleeping. I need to take more sleeping medication in order to sleep. And when I do that, I over sleep. I slept 13 hours last night after taking a few sleeping pills and cold medicine. And now I can not sleep. I need to take more meds but it is making me feel weak and drowsy when I am awake. Why am I having these sleep problems? Is this mental?

Forgot to say that sometimes I sleep just 3 hours and I can not sleep the next day. Sometimes not even sleeping pills can put me out

 

[Talina]

You need to speak with your doctor about your sleeping problems. Eating more sleeping pills will become really dangerous. It will damage your body and put you in a dangerous situation. You wrote of feeling more drowsy during the day which means you still have it in you system and got a side-effect.

It can be mental health problem but it can also be that you got an tolerance towards your sleeping pills and need them to be able to sleep or a psychological dependens which you can develop.

So don’t try to handle your sleep on your own instead speak with a doctor. But to answer your question about mental health: Mental health can disrupt your sleep patterns and cause you to have trouble falling a sleep. I know when I get anxiety, I will at most sleep 10 hours in a week and have a few days with no sleeping.