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ranea...during my major depressive episode...I shook for about a year. Some days it was hard to write with a pen or pencil and I often dropped things. It was basically that my nerves were shot and I believe my body was on a stress overload ...so the more stressed I got, the less my body was able to handle it and therefore I shook. (I liken it to being out in cold weather...your body can naturally regulate your internal temp for a while and to certain limits, but if it gets colder or you are exposed to the low temps for a continued length of time....the body's natural response is to shake/shiver. Two different reasons for the body to shake, but does the example make more sense?)

Anyway...that's me. Could be different for him? Dunno. But I slept 25 hours straight on more than one occasion (with only brief potty breaks and sometimes a gulp of water or a mouthful of food...and then my body would take over and I wasn't capable of maintaining wakefulness). On average, I would guess I slept about 14 hours a day (or more) for over a year. And months, literally, that I didn't go outside unless I had no other choice and had to when I ran out of cigerettes or toilet paper).

Anyway....what he is dealing with is serious and needs the help of a medical team (psychiatrist, general doc, therapist...and possible others). The sooner he gets started the better...