It’s exhausting because I spend a good portion of the day waiting for my mind to start working, and it’s pretty inefficient. I’m trying to figure out what this is all about, like is it temporary due to burnout, Strattera, or something else.
Takes me 16 hours of trying to wake up, then I go to bed and try again the next day.
Non-24h sleep disorder is a common comorbidity with ADHD. If you are always tired when you wake up this is likely the cause.
Non-24h sleep disorder
omg that is me! I’ve always had trouble staying on a 24 hours sleep schedule. I just keep falling asleep later and later, until I get so tired from sleep too late and waking up early, that I finally crash. this has been my life story.
I do it until I fall asleep at like 3pm and then wake up at midnight and then it takes a few days to get back to a “normal” pattern until slowly the 3pm crash comes back around
Yep. I don’t have it diagnosed because my sleep study didn’t show anything so apparently I don’t have anything 🙄, aka I don’t have sleep apnea so sleep medicine didn’t care, but I almost certainly have non-24h. During covid lockdowns I slept when I was tired and ended up on a 25.5 hour schedule. I actually woke up and was awake. It was great.
Technically just having a cold is a morbidity.
Recorded since 1656; from morbid, from Latin morbidus (“diseased”), from morbus (“disease”), from the root of morī (“to die”) or from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to rub, pound, wear away”).
pls enjoy a recent research paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32538895/
It takes all of the spiders a while to leave your head
So very much yes. I’m not on any meds like strattera or stimulants like Adderall, and I definitely take the entire morning to get going.
Unless there’s an emergency at work that requires adrenaline and attention, I don’t produce much of anything until the afternoon.
You’re not alone!
You’re not alone. I wake at 7am, sit for about an hour for my brain to spool up, shower and get ready, and leave by 9:30am
