You can't fall asleep, or you wake too early. The future is hopeless. Sad, down, blah - especially in the morning. There is a natural biological tendency to feel better as the day goes on, because the lack of sleep acts as an antidepressant,'' says Dr. Norman Sussman, a psychiatrist at New York University. This is called diurnal depression.
Suicide seems an option.
Jokes like, ''If I don't finish this, I'll kill myself,'' are stupid but usually not serious. What's dangerous, says O'Connor, is when ''you think, 'I'd be better off dead, my loved ones would be better off without me.''' 9. Making decisions is very hard.