Sleep addiction
Hello! I (17M) think I'm addicted to sleeping... Summer break has just started and I've spent 99% of it in bed, gotten nothing I wanted to do done. I go to bed at 9:30 every night and will sleep until 6AM, get up and have breakfast then go RIGHT back to sleep. This time it was from 6:30-9AM. I would have slept longer, but my dog eventually woke me up to let her outside. I felt so bad that I'd been sleeping through her asking to go out as it's my responsibility to take care of the animals in the house while I'm here. And now I just want to go right back to sleep.
Obviously I'm not sleep deprived, I sleep way more than anyone my age I know. (And yes, I know most teenagers don't sleep enough.) I like to think I have a healthy lifestyle. No caffeine. Been on an SSRI for two years. I'm vegetarian, I eat whole foods, I'm a healthy weight. Sometimes I don't eat enough because I just forget to eat, so there's a few days when I'll have breakfast at 6AM and nothing else until 10PM when my stomach starts to kill me. But that's only like once or twice a week, and whenever someone else makes a meal for me or I go out I'll eat a bunch.
In reality, I'm not "missing" much other than my senior summer, but I do really want to finish writing my second novel as I want to work on getting published whilst I'm in college. I work as a cashier about 5 days a week. I've only missed work because of sleeping once, and I woke up an hour later when they called me asking if I was okay because I'm usually early. I just slept through my alarm. I genuinely don't know what to do, because whenever I tell someone about this, they say it's good that I'm sleeping more than most teens my age. But it's not just enough, it's WAY too much and it's screwing up my energy levels all day. Whenever I'm not sleeping I'm thinking about it.
I don't know if it's possible to get addicted to sleeping??? But who knows. Any suggestions?