Re: desperate to managing my sleep cycle. any one want to join?

[Anonymous]

I’m one of the no sleep types. I was that way as a baby, a little kid, teen-ager and even now as an adult. I consider going to be by midnight as an early night. Normal bedtime is between 1 and 2 am, closer to 2 am. I get up at 5:30 everyday to get ready for work, leave the house by 7:00 (I HAVE to read the morning paper first which is why it takes me so long to get out the door) and am at work until at least 6:00 every night and then have an hour’s drive back home.

My doctor has given me meds to take to help me sleep and I have tried them but they make me feel groggy in the morning. Yeck! I hated that dopey feeling so I don’t bother with taking them. Going to bed earlier than I do just seems to give me hours of lying in bed awake. Boring. I’d rather be up and doing something, so that’s what I do.

My only worry is that having so little sleep is probably not a good thing for my body. Any doctor I’ve ever seen has said sleep is so important to our health. I feel very guilty about staying up until 2 most nights. When I’m off work for the summer, I’m up even later. Sometimes, I think if I could get rid of the guilt I feel about being up all night that I would never go to bed. 😳

My husband gave up years ago with trying to get me to go to bed earlier. The fact that he gets up between 4 and 4:30 is what finally drives me to bed. I don’t want him to find out yet again that I’ve been up all night once again. My mom used to tell me when I was just a kid that I always burned the candle at both ends. I was never sure what it meant until I was older. Yes, that’s me!

Oh!! One other thing that I did mean to mention. If I really decide that I WANT to go to bed early I CAN do it. I just tell myself to go and do it….NOW! We are our own worse enemies. We make a lot of excuses as to why we can’t do something. If we really, really, really want to do something we ADDers find a way and do it.

Not getting to bed earlier than some of us do is just because we continue to let ourselves believe that we’re unable to break away from an activity. We’re hyperfocussing! It’s impossible! We can’t break that spell!

It’s hard to do but we can do it if we really want to do so. Unfortunately, as ADDers, I think a lot of us do the ‘pull the wool over our eyes’ routine about being ‘unable’ to break the hyperfocus to move on to that unwanted task- one that goes something like’ going to bed’. As ADDers, I think most of us can do a whole lot more than the rest of the world!

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