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You can “survive” on it, but do you want to “survive” or live and be healthy in mind, body and spirit?
My sleep doc said at my age (nearing 55 really soon) I needed 8, not 6, not 7, but 8, and to get less would INCREASE my ADHD symptoms.
I was getting by on 4 or 5. In fact, I had been doing 4 or 5 for over a decade if not a tad longer. I thought, geesh, this is simple, I’m ok.
HAHAHA. NOT. I was grumpy, short-fused, irritable, etc.
Do I ever feel better!
(although I’m still grumpy, irritable, short-fused – but it’s mostly the ADHD now, and I’m not nearly as bad)
The sleep center folks stressed that consistant WAKING up time is the most critical. If I needed to adjust, put more sleep on the go to bed end, and not the morning. I was staying up until midnight, and getting up for work at 4:30 am. They insisted I get to bed earlier, and to ALWAYS get up within an hour of that 4:30, even on weekends. so she drew me out a schedule – I am to sleep no later than 5:30 on weekends now.
I also find the ADHD meds seem to work a tad better with more sleep…………….
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