Forgive me if this is an extremely obvious statement, but in your experience, do you feel like your depression symptoms and overall mental health is a lot worse during the night? 

My sleep schedule has been messed up for nearly 3 months now, and I’ve been waking up around 4:30PM every day (where I’m at this is almost exactly when the sun goes down) and sleeping at around 7AM (when the sun comes up, essentially) and I absolutely have felt my depression is intensified by this (among other shit too).

I remember before this fucked up schedule, pretty much all my reasons for being depressed were the same except for 1 difference: I woke up in the morning, and I felt significantly better. Even if I was at home all day, just the fact that it is morning and I can see that it is from the windows makes me calmer and overall better mentally.

So, is this a universal thing? Or just person-specific? Does it have much to do with Vitamin D, because I have been taking daily Vitamin D supplements to compensate for the lack of sunlight, although I do understand it’s probably not as effective.