History Main / SleepyDepressive

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/224601 Unalienable]]'', a crossover fic between the ''Franchise/XMenFilmSeries'' and the ''[[Series/{{Highlander]]}}'' tv-series as Cyclops suffering through this after the events of ''Film/X2XMenUnited'' - after finding no trace of Jean in the ruins of Stryker's compound despite repeated attempts, Scott slips into a depressed, exhausted haze, refusing to get out of bed, even to shave or shower. It doesn't last long, as a rather unsympathetic Logan basically drags him out of bed, telling him the school doesn't have the luxury of letting Scott feel sorry for himself. Obviously, using this method on a depressed person in real life is very unlikely to have a positive effect.

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* ''Fanfic/AmbitiousLove'': Natsuki mentions that Kumiko spent a week eating nothing but sleeping pills and [[HeartbreakAndIceCream ice cream]] after Reina abandoned her the second time. She later attempted suicide but was [[InterruptedSuicide saved before she bled out]].
* After being tortured and blinded in ''Fanfic/JackOLantern'', Sarada finds that she enjoys sleeping more than she did before. This is because at least in her dreams she can still see. This is also why she rejects her sleeping pills; she finds even nightmares better than dreamless slumber.
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18020750/chapters/42578507 We As Human]]'' has [[Series/{{Supernatural}} Sam Winchester]] sleeping for weeks on end from depression.

* Private Melvin in ''Film/RenaissanceMan'' is part of the loser DD squad because he's always falling asleep. Turns out it's how he copes with the fact that since he's left home, his step-father has turned to abusing his younger siblings.

* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': After the tragic death of her mate, Moth Flight begins eating excessive amounts of poppy seeds (which act like sleeping pills) so she'll sleep through her pain.
* In ''Literature/{{Wicked}}'', the lonely housewife Melena [[JunkieParent chews on leaves]] that often leave her passed out.
* In ''Literature/AThousandSplendidSuns'' Laila's chronically depressed mother spends most of her days in bed, leaving her 9-years-old daughter doing much of the house chores (even the ones a kid shouldn't do) by herself.
* After being marooned on an ice planet in ''Literature/RedDwarf: Better Than Life,'' Lister ends up being left so miserable by [[TraumaCongaLine the course of his life since accidentally leaving Earth]] that all he can do is go to sleep. He ends up sleeping through the entire planet thawing out.

* David from ''Literature/WhatToSayNext'' spends three days doing almost nothing but sleeping after [[spoiler:his SecretDiary is leaked to the entire school under the name "The Retard's Guide to Mapleview."]]
* ''Literature/ThingsIShouldHaveKnown'': After Ivy and Chloe's dad died of cancer, their mom often wouldn't get out of bed in the morning. The sisters had to get ready for school by themselves.
* Nick Weller from ''Literature/TheBoyWhoDrewMonsters'' had a brother who was stillborn when he was seven. Afterwards, his mother lay on the couch and didn't get dressed. To Nick at the time, it felt like an eternity, but in hindsight he realizes the worst of it only lasted a few days.
* ''Literature/TheRoosevelt'': At the beginning of ''Carry the Ocean'', Jeremey's untreated depression causes him to go to bed at about ten PM but often sleep until noon. Some days he doesn't get up at all.
* ''Literature/SmallAsAnElephant'': After Jack's mom's manic episodes, she spends days and sometimes weeks in bed.
* In ''Literature/TheBoyFromAleppoWhoPaintedTheWar'', Adam's family takes in Ali, a teenager whose family was killed by soldiers while he hid under the bed. At first he's fairly active, but as time passes, he becomes more and more depressed, until he's spending almost all day in bed. Adam himself is always tired, even though he rarely leaves the house, and is worried he'll end up like Ali.

* David Rose on ''Series/SchittsCreek'' sleeps all the time after emotional trauma, including when he first is exiled to the town, when the Blouse Barn shuts down and when he's [[spoiler: on a break from Patrick.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'': Sans constantly sleeping on the job, much to the chagrin of his brother, is initially PlayedForLaughs and just seems to be an indicator of his lazy personality, until it’s revealed that said laziness stems from [[spoiler: the crushing knowledge that anything he could possibly achieve can and most likely will be reset with a single move from a force completely out of his control - Flowey, and later the player, resetting the timeline over and over until they’re satisfied or completely bored]].

* ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'': One of the first things we learn about Sayori is that she is prone to sleeping in and being late to school. This seems at first just to be a side-effect of her flighty nature, but then it's revealed that [[spoiler: she's had horrible depression her entire life, and she sleeps a lot because of that]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'': Sans constantly sleeping on the job, much to the chagrin of his brother, is initially PlayedForLaughs and just seems to be an indicator of his lazy personality, until it’s revealed that said laziness stems from [[spoiler: the crushing knowledge that anything he could possibly achieve can and most likely will be reset with a single move from a force completely out of his control - the player, resetting the timeline over and over until they’re satisfied or completely bored]].

This character is a {{Sleepyhead}} but it's not simple quirk. They're in too much mental pain to do anything but sleep. Maybe they've suffered a recent tragedy or maybe they suffer from (often untreated) mental illness, but this character spends a lot of time sleeping. There are also those who use sleeping, or more specifically dreaming, as {{escapism}} from their waking stress.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18020750/chapters/42578507 We As Human]]'' has [[Series/{{Supernatural}} Sam Winchester sleeping for weeks on end from depression.

* In ''Fanfic/HerFracturedSpirit'', a sign of [[VideoGame/{{Splatoon}} Callie]]'s worsening depression is that she stays in bed all day.

-->-- Moth Flight, ''Literature/{{Warrior|Cats}}s: Moth Flight's Vision''

* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', Dream's pouch of sand ended up in the hands of [[ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine's]] junkie ex-girlfriend Rachel. When their relationship ended, Rachel used the sand as a drug to keep herself asleep all the time in order to cope with her depression. The effects of years of inactivity upon her already-unhealthy body are not pretty, and Dream ends up putting her in a permanent sleep in order to spare her from the suffering that withdrawal would have brought.