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What's sleep like for you? (Patreon)

Published:
2022-03-23 21:38:03
Imported:
2023-02

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Hello everyone!

Time for another book-related question! 😄

If you happen to remember, please let us know how you'd like to be quoted (Anonymous is an option!)!

Now time for the question...

What is sleep like for you? 💤🛌

Comments

Ben

Erm I manage to sleep fine so long as it's after 3am.

Chefda

I can get to sleep quite easily virtually anywhere. I function better on 7-8 hours, but 5-6 can do. However, my attitude to sleep is that it’s the enemy. The two things that make me go to sleep are hating being knackered and the fact that my body will just shut down after a certain point of no sleep.

Anonymous

I sleep like clockwork. 6 hours that is it. I can fall asleep in minutes, and will wake up 6 hours later. Which Is annoying when I am really tired and go to bed around 9 and wake up at 3. (I am okay with being quoted)

Anonymous

Sleep is wonderful, but feels like a trap to me. It takes me a long time to fall asleep, sometimes up to 3 hours, and waking up is a chore. My body just wants to stay asleep. If I don’t have a specific thing getting me out of bed, I’ll end up in bed for hours after I should have gotten up. -Andrew, in California

Anonymous

Sleep... It is elusive but incredibly important to my mental health and functionality. While I was a natural night owl through high school and college, and still greatly enjoy staying up doing whatever interests me at the time when I can, I have a job now that I need to wake up at 5:00AM to catch the bus for. As a result, I've had to prioritize sleep and attempt to self enforce a 9:00PM bedtime. That is a real challenge some times. I tend to always think I can stay up an extra half hour, which quickly turns into a whole hour... sometimes two. Then I'm not even extra tired at 9:00PM the next night, but will have consistently had a rough mental health day. Oh! And I can't forget to mention that daylight savings royally screws with my head for about two weeks every time it happens. -Matt E. a "twice exceptional" equipment specialist from Wisconsin.

Anonymous

I grew up as a night owl and am wondering if ADHD was partially caused by just being exhausted during the development of my brain up through high school? When I didn't have to wake up in the morning for anything I would naturally start staying up later and later, often until like 3 or 4am. In college, when I was more motivated, if I had any 8am classes my whole semester would be ruined! Despite trying to have good sleep hygiene! Now I'm a bat biologist for my career! But it turns out there are still lots of morning meetings and what not, and I'm also a little less of a night owl as I've gotten older (still a night owl, but prefer a bedtime of around 12 or 1 instead of 3 or 4, and I have a hard time sleeping past 8:30am. While I think I sleep pretty well when I'm somewhat in sync with my natural sleep cycle, I do kind of procrastinate going to bed even when I'm tired, I think because I often feel like I haven't had enough veg and zone out time during the day. Also when I'm stressed I wake up really early in an anxious mood, and vyvanse kind of makes it hard to get a good night of sleep, though not super consistently. I try to take it early enough to not interfere, but that often means it kicks in when I'm still super groggy and not ready to start my day. But I'm curious how many others with ADHD were just night people during development and just completely exhausted while we were supposed to be learning how to focus and learn?

Anonymous

Sleep for me is extremely elusive. I sleep probably three - four hours each weeknight and six over weekend days. I have apnea so sleeping even with the CPAP is problematic. I know it is not great for my health, but I just cope with the hustle caused by extreme procrastination due to forgetfulness, or just energy drain from parenting two neurodivergent children and taking care of my spouse who was born with disability, and continues to slowly physically decline. But I get through it.

Anonymous

My "prescriptionist" put me on Trazadone, an anti depressant. During the trials they discovered that in low doses it acts like a sleep aid. I couldn't be happier with it.

Anonymous

Going to sleep, usually, has not been a problem for me during my first 40+ yrs pre-treatment and my nearly 10 yrs post-treatment. If I can avoid hyper-focus and ruminating, I am asleep shortly after my head hits the pillow because I am so exhausted. The emergence of the internet and smart phones have not been a help in this regard. I can usually rack a solid 6 hrs. Maybe stretch it into a fitful 7 hrs. After 6 hrs., if anything wakes me up, I am switched on, but not fully functional, and there is no going back unless my body is so exhausted my brain never gets a foothold in reality. I figure I average 6 hrs. a night but, 7 or 8, regularly, would really be nice. Sleep is the first casualty in the ADHD war. Pre-treatment allowed my "H" to compensate for the lack of sleep. I was also a raging jerk more times than I care to count. Now that I am medicated, the "H" is subdued and much of my motivation left along with it. Now, the lack of sleep, along with age, and a muted Hyper-activity has sapped me of most of my drive to be active, engaged or motivated. I use carbs and caffeine to compensate, much to the detriment of my health. It does make me wonder, wistfully, what I would have been like as a medicated 20-something instead of the burnt-out 50 something I am now. Sigh.

Anonymous

Definitely too late, but sleep is one of the things that I am really working on. Because I feel better when I get out of the house and shower in the morning, I am “forcing” myself into being a morning person. This means getting up before 8 am every single day (yes including weekends) and usually at 6am. Because I’m a teenager I need a lot of sleep so I am working on keeping my sleep schedule closer towards falling asleep at 9:30 so I get enough sleep. I use melatonin (sometimes) to fall asleep, but the thing that I’ve been working on that has the greatest impact is not using my phone in bed. Because I love to read and have no time awareness when I do (uh, lets read for a bit time:8:15…. Hmm I finished this book that’s weird time: 2:30. Oh heck, I was supposed to fall asleep 5 hours ago. Whoops) I often will have a friend or family member video call with me for a bit so I don’t start reading before I head to bed (Should this end up in the book, please mention me by name)

Anonymous

I am a night shift nurse and could sleep all the time. But on my off days I can sleep when my head hits the pillow. This could even be at 8 pm. If I wake up for any reason I am up. This is why my loving husband lets me sleep where ever I fall asleep. I feel with ADHD if I wake up for any little thing my brain is full speed. (Tasha is fine).

Anonymous

It's very hard for me to wake up, going to sleep seems to be fine because I stay up until my brain is tired, so sadly I either stay up really late, or just pass out on the couch, or end up wanting to go to bed early without being able to finish what needs to be done (laundry, etc). I almost always listen to music when sleeping, it has really helped to just fall asleep. I've tried sleeping early every day, and end up waking up middle of the night (sleep at 9pm-10pm wake up 3am) etc. I think just like everyday of our lives, it's a day by day thing to deal with, and sometimes it's not so hard, and other times it's so difficult it can cause waves in our relationships.