Sleeping
So, I’ve been doing pretty bad with the ADHD recently. I’ve recently started recording how much work I get done, which is a pretty good proxy for how bad my ADHD is acting up, and really easy to measure objectively, to boot. And just yesterday I started on a new sleep schedule. I now go to bed when I feel like it and get up when I feel like it. I have delayed sleep phase syndrome, so my sleep hours will rotate throughout the day over a period of about two weeks, I’m guessing. I don’t actually know exactly how much my circadian rhythm is elongated, but I guess I’m going to find out. I went to bed at 22:30 yesterday, and will probably go to bed at about 0:30 or 1:00 today. But it’ll take a while before I catch up on all my sleep and then before I see what my schedule settles out to being. (It’s great that my employers are OK with this arrangement. I’ll just come into the office during normal hours as much as possible, and work the rest of the time during off-hours.) So I’ll be tracking how much regular sleep helps my symptoms. (And we’ll see if I start blogging more regularly.)
Incidentally, I know that light therapy helps with my symptoms, but I don’t know exactly how much. Now that I’m able to follow my natural sleep phase, I’ll be able to measure it.
