As someone with ADHD I find it’s a common experience for many that we stay up all night. I’ve fought that in the past but now I kinda feel like I should just accept it. Go to bed late, get up late. However that’s not very conducive to a normal business routine.
How do you all handle your mornings and nights? Is it worth it even to try to change?
You must log in or register to comment.
Absolutely believe in chronotypes. Retired now, thank god. But my best REM sleep has always happened somewhere between 5 am and 9 am. Even when I had to follow everyone else’s schedule, I absolutely had to be able to sleep in Saturday morning. If I didn’t, at some point I’d have to go off in a corner later in the week and just sort of waking-dream to catch up on REM.
I have recently learned that this is called Delayed sleep phase syndrome (DSPS) and is very common in many people ‘on the spectrum’. I think it’s nonsense to call it a syndrome but that’s modern society for you.
Anyway, I usually don’t sleep before 4am, often even later. It’s rough 😬
How do you deal with it?
I kinda… don’t lol. But I work just 4 days a week and on 3 of those I start relatively late (10:30), so that helps a bit.
I fought against my nature for years and tried the “push through the pain” method for most of my career. I burnt out of yet another job at the beginning of this year and decided I never wanted to work 9-5 again. I retrained to be a teacher and now I give afternoon and evening classes. I do sub work on the occasional morning but I won’t do two days in a row.
I’m finding a lot of my executive functioning is better now that I’ve had enough sleep! I’m no longer living in survival mode constantly.
The improvement in my quality of life is incredible. I feel like one of those people who starts their day at 5am now. I have time in the morning to eat, exercise and get ready for the day before I head in to work. But instead of getting up at 5 I’m getting up around 10 instead. It’s glorious.
