home and SLEEPING A LOT

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<p>My 20 year old son just finished his second year in college. I know when he is at school he has irregular sleep habits. Sometimes he is up all night, especially during finals.</p>

<p>He has been home for 4 days and has been sleeping about 15 hours a day since he got here. He’ll wake up to go to work for a few hours, then come home and take a nap. Get up again for dinner, barely eat, then go back to bed. He’s been asleep now for 12.5 hours.</p>

<p>Do I need to worry? Is he just catching up from finals week? What are your college kids doing?</p>

<p>Thank you.</p>

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<p>Mine slept for 3 days but is up (sort of) now.</p>

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<p>I tolerated that for a week. Then they needed to be up.</p>

4

<p>If he doesn’t have mono and isn’t depressed, maybe he’s just exhausted and growing. When do boys stop growing?</p>

<p>Does he smoke pot?</p>

5

<p>Sounds like he turned into a toddler.
Possible gaming hardcore into the wee hours or
mono, perhaps-time for a checkup?</p>

6

<p>Think Zits!</p>

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<p>Are you sure he’s actually sleeping, and not spending hours on Facebook or playing games? That would be the first thing I’d think of.</p>

8

<p>When my D would come home from school she would sleep for hours and hours and hours. I chalked it up to the security, relief to be home, and familiar surroundings. It usually lasted a few days and then the hibernation wore off.</p>

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<p>D arrived home at 4 am Saturday, then slept til 3 pm the next day, was up late last night, and I think she’s still asleep. I call it “Vampire Weekend.”</p>

10

<p>Our son would do that at the end of a semester.</p>

<p>I do that on the weekends from time to time if I have a rough week (both at work and in working out).</p>

11

<p>As long as he did okay in school then I think he’s fine, probably just decompressing, which is actually very healthy. Doing well at school and on the job is the litmus test.</p>

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<p>At that age, my son did the same thing for what seemed like 6 weeks. He was supposed to be looking for work, but wasn’t getting up until 4pm! </p>

<p>Then one day he got up around noon, went out, got a job, and essentially became a workaholic for the next 3 years. (He had dropped out of school in favor of the job). So yeah, it happens.</p>

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<p>I remember coming home from college and sleeping 20 hours straight, being up for a few hours and then going back to bed. Finals are exhausting. DS always has a recovery period when he comes home too.</p>

<p>I think this is normal. If he’s still doing this in a week I would talk to him. But college kids also tend to stay up late then sleep until ridiculous hours. At least he’s getting up for work.</p>

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<p>He is trying to repay his sleep debt. Seriously. A sleep disorder expert speaks to Stanford freshman about sleep and sleep debt. My D usually took about two weeks to return to her normal sleep hours.</p>

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<p>Totally normal, unless it lasts more than two weeks.</p>