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starkid256 · 9 months

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sleep is such a scam for people with adhd.

lets go to sleep. but it will take you 30 minutes. is something wrong? oh, your positions uncomfy? well then, go change it. oops! you just lost half the sleep fuel you were saving up. oh, are you too sweaty? you might wanna do something about that. promise it wont take too much sleep meter to shuffle your blanket around a bit. oops! just drained some more. wanna remember that cringey thing you did when you were 10? yeahhh. hey. hey. hey. hey you. yeah you. i have something to tell you. you have to pee. and once youre done... oops! back to ground zero!!!!!!!!

#adhd #actually adhd #adhd problems #adhd things #adhd sleep #sleep #sleep problems #relatable #funny but sad

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penguicorns-are-cool · 6 months

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Sleep Tax

so I've been thinking about something and I'm gonna call it sleep tax

basically, because of my ADHD I need a bit of extra time to get ready in the morning, but also the earlier I wake up the more time I need cause I'm also dealing with sleep deprivation.

So like, if I need to leave home at 8:30 I need to fully wake up by 7:30 so my first alarm has to be at 7:00 so I have time for a few snoozes and an hour to get ready. If I have to leave by 8:00 though I need to wake up fully by 7:00 to even have a chance of getting ready in time and my first alarm has to be around 6:20.

And it gets worse if it's cold cause now there's the extra step of forcing myself into the cold and the cold makes everything else harder to do. So now I have to wake up like 15 minutes earlier to give myself time for that but really my first alarm is way before that so I can have proper snoozing time. Like, Now to leave at 8:30 I have to fully wake up around 7:15 or earlier and my first alarm will be at 6:30.

Now, if waking up this early makes me sleep deprived for whatever reason. Like maybe I had a lot of work the night before, or I had a bad day and ended up staying up late on Tumblr trying to decompress to the point that I could get to sleep, or I just couldn't sleep. Then it'll start a cycle of not so great energy-sapping days where it's hard to sleep and I consistently get to bed closer to 1-2am. Now I'm getting like 6 or less hours of sleep a night and am getting very sleep-deprived so getting ready is even slower. Now I have to wake up even earlier to compensate for that. My first alarm now is at 6:20 (or earlier) so I can wake up at 7:00

And if I have to wake up earlier when I'm already waking up at 7:00 and have to leave around 8:00 instead of 8:30, well I just kind of die cause now I'm waking up at 6:45 with my first alarm at 6:00 or 5:55 all while getting less than 5 hours of sleep a night

So now I'm in this horrible cycle of getting more and more sleep deprived because the sleep deprivation and other stuff makes it harder and harder to get ready so I have to wake up earlier and earlier which makes my days more and more energy-sapping which means I stay up later and I get more sleep-deprived and I'm even slower getting ready and have to wake up earlier and on and on and on

#sleep tax #adhd #actually adhd #adhd tax #sleep #adhd sleep #adhd problems #adhd brain #neurodivergent #do you have sleep tax

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vulpisnocturna · 18 days

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Right, I’m really curious. Do any other neurodivergent people (esp ADHD/autism) have weird dreams? I’m talking mostly negative ones, where nightmare scenarios happen, but mainly long and bizarre, often with fully fleshed out storylines, characters, and plot. I have found some studies linking ADHD to more negative dreams, but it was in children only, and didn’t talk about how bizarre and vivid they are. I’ve always been told my dreams are wacky or that I should write books from the storylines in my dreams. I’m wondering if anyone else has a similar experience?

#sick of this #or when the dream is interrupted and I can’t know how it ends!!#you people in psych research pls research this #adhd #dreams #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #autism #adult adhd #adhd things #autistic spectrum #asd #adhd sleep #neurodiverse things #sleep problems #weird dreams #nightmares #psychology #audhd

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anxious-bisexual-0 · 15 days

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someone please tell me to go to sleep I’ve been reading Polin fanfiction all night (YALL ARE SUCH TALENTED WRITERS WHAT?????) but I am so devastatingly tired

#bridgerton #bridgerton netflix #polin #romancing mister bridgerton #polin fic #adhd sleep #I can’t go to sleep because I just want to keep reading to supplement the fact that the season isn’t out yet

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chronicsymptomsyndrome · 9 days

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Just a sheet: 🥶

A sheet and blanket: 🥵

TWO sheets: 😌😴

#adhd autistic #audhd problems #sensory issues #autistic thoughts #audhd struggles #adhd sleep #sleep problems #autistic borderline #autistic sensory issues #audhd creature #sleep

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nootcatt · 8 months

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Okay, I don't know how else to explain it, but this is what happens when a normal person closes their eyes to fall asleep

And this is what happens when I do

#adhd #adhd brain #adhd things #undiagnosed adhd #neurodivergent #neurodiverse stuff #neurospicy #adhd sleep #sleep adhd #anxiety #adhd anxiety #made up scenarios #scenarios #adhd life

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typicalbrunette · 7 months

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Tell me your comfort show to go to sleep to. Especially if it’s a cartoon but it doesn’t have to be!

#neurodivergent #adhd #comfort shows #comfort show #sleep #adhd sleep #sleep issues

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liha-irden · 8 months

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ah yes going to bed at 7am again

#adhd sleep #insomnia #delayed sleep phase disorder #personal

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mrs-pattie-thinks-things · 1 month

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Hint: it was not any of those things

#adhd sleep #adhd problems #actually adhd #neurospicy #mental illness cured

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useless-fucking-lesbian · 1 year

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Can I just say, why the fuck do so many ppl talk abt how to fix ur sleep if u have adhd and it’s is SO incorrect bc our brain is completely different so we don’t have to take extra measures that would help you, we need to take extra measures that help us.

For example: ppl say sleep in a dark room, the point of dsps is that at NIGHT we find it hard to sleep so WHY SHOULD WE SIMULATE THAT, and “just go to bed earlier” yes bc that is totally gonna help the fact that I’m still not gonna be tired till like 10am, AND PPL SAY DONT HAVE CAFFIENE BUT ARE UNEDUCATED AS SUCH THAT IT IS SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN TO HELP CALM PPL WITH ADHD WHICH SOLVES ALMOST EVERY DIFFICULTY TO SLEEP WE HAVE

I know these ppl have good intentions but nobody realises that we don’t just experience more difficulties like that but they are solved differently bc it is a mental disorder not just a characteristic we have. ADHD is well known in many ways it affects ppl but nobody is educated on how our problems will not be solved the way a neurotypical would be

#ADHD #adhd sleep #sleep #dsps #delayed sleep phase syndrome #neurodivergent #neurodivergencies

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oddballtumbles · 3 months

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Can’t sleep because brain go brrrr.

Can’t put on music because too loud bad.

Can’t watch stuff because not shutting down keeping up.

No want read current fanfics because in rough spot but don’t want to find fluff because takes too long.

Been trying to sleep for about 4 hours. Too tired to do anything too awake to sleep.

Will continue to try.

#adhd problems #adhd #i just want to sleep #cant sleep #adhd sleep #eepyposting #so eepy

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vatiswrongwidme1212 · 5 months

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being on Ritalin is a double edged sword I won’t eat the entire day purely down to not feeling hungry in the slightest, but the moment it wears off the hunger hits back with a vengeance and really have to fight the urge to binge…

anyone know if vyvanse or long release Ritalin helps with night time binge eating?

I struggle with sleep which is why short release was originally preferred - I take Clonidine at night time for insomnia/adhd as well but the effectivity of this as a “sedative” would be reduced if I still had substantial amounts of a stimulant in my system…

Help? Advice?

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violet-phoenix-nebula · 1 year

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Okay, brain dump time.

There's this guy on YouTube named Simon Whistler who has about ten thousand channels, one of them being called Brain Blaze. I like his content because it's generally fascinating.

A week ago he posted a video about Schizophrenia. As someone who's been blessed by the 'buy one, get ten free' aspect of mental illness and also subject to frequent hyperfixations, I'm endlessly fascinated by various mental and physical illnesses. So I click the Schizophrenia video instead of trying to sleep like a normal person (granted I have DSPD so anything between midnight and dawn is unlikely).

And guys.........

I've gotta see if I can get in with my psychiatrist sooner than my next appointment a month from now.

There was WAY too much in that that was scarily familiar. The negative symptoms, me being 28 (almost 29) AFAB, child abuse risk factor, having had multiple babies in the last 6½~ years, the prodromal period being known to last years.......

However, a huge part is the negative symptoms. I tick so many boxes on that list and they're things that have been gradually increasing in the last few years. I was diagnosed with ADHD a year ago and it fits really well now, so I assumed I always had it and it just manifested differently.

I've been telling myself the signs were always there, that I can see it looking back, etc.

But here's the thing.

I don't actually remember any of that.

Total self honesty? I've basically been gaslighting myself because it has to have been there because I have ADHD. But I didn't struggle with school! I didn't have trouble in class! I didn't struggle with grades, or paying attention! I did just fine! The signs weren't actually there til after I started popping babies out.

So, naturally I come to Tumblr and desperately scroll through the schizophrenia tags to learn people's real life experiences and see if they resonate with me or not. Also, as usual, I should be sleeping, but am I? Nope.

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chronicsymptomsyndrome · 3 months

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wooooo sleep ! !

bedtime yippee!! !

(stays up for another 18 hours)

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kit757 · 1 year

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My adhd ass just got up to get a glass of water, and somehow found herself answering work emails for an hour at 10pm. Wtf is wrong with me. I will do literal work to not sleep.

Brain……

GO TO SLEEP!

#go to sleep #and I just realized I forgot the damn water!?#wish me luck i suppose #adhd #adhd brain #adhd sleep

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lesbian-disaster-academic · 6 months

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i used to be so good at writing strong, thoroughly-researched, thoroughly-edited essays.

as a kid in hs, my teacher literally came up to me, holding my 40 page essay on the intersection of the European witch hunts and capitalism/exploitation/gender roles (it was supposed to be 7 pages...whoops) and went like "this is literally a master's-degree level thesis. what are you doing?? you could literally use this as your final dissertation in a master's program, what the fuck."

NOW??? NOW?? you'd think I'd be oh so skilled. but alas. i can barely piece together two ideas. adhd skill-regression is so so real. im SOBBING

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