I have been depressed before and it made me SO tired - I slept a lot. The one thing I did last year to fight from being depressed was to exercise, and to get out and not allow myself to sink into sleeping all of the time.
I don't believe too many people sleep purposefully to get away from something or a situation. If you aren't tired, it's hard to sleep - right? But being clinically depressed is different. You have to sometimes fight to stay awake.
She needs help - and it might just be medication to get her feeling better. I was on Prozac for months, and now I can tell when I'm starting to get depressed and I do more natural things (like exercise) to combat it.
