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Adolescent mental health is becoming clinical attention since suicide is one of the leading causes of death in late teens. Depression and sleep are interconnected, since depression affects sleep, vice versa. Clinical depression with symptoms of sleep disturbance were interviewed by a board certified psychiatrist following depression inventory. Age, sex matched adolescents were also accessed by depression inventory scales. 71 adolescence aged from 16-18 ( M:F=1:1) who visited sleep disorders clinic for their complaints of daytime sleepiness, sleep initiation problems, snoring, frequent midnight awakenings. 29% of them diagnosed with narcolepsy, 21% delayed sleep phase syndrome, 19% obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, 15% of them had chronic insomnia. Some of them have multiple sleep disorders associated diagnosis like OSA + narcolepsy, OSA + insomnia, or DSPS + OSA. 21 aged, sex matched high school students were evaluated for their anxiety and depression symptoms. Patients with sleep complaints had higher level of emotional distress compared with healthy adolescents without sleep complaints. Among sleep disorders, patients with narcolepsy had higher level of depression. These explains why children or adolescents with narcolepsy are initially misdiagnosed with depression in clinical setting. Comorbid depression and narcolepsy should be differentiated in clinical field. In adolescents, patients with sleep disorders especially with narcolepsy have higher level of depression. Misdiagnosis of narcolepsy as depression may delay narcolepsy diagnosis.