Now honestly, I don’t know if it is my ADHD, seems I’m always relating my ADHD to how I live my life (well duh!) but it’s my personal opinion that it does affect the way my brain operates, and my sleep.
I’ve always had trouble sleeping, some nights because I just can’t sleep or other nights because I’m distracted by technology. Sound familiar? Staying up all night on the internet? That’s one major problem I’ve always had. Now you may just say, turn the laptop off! Well it really isn’t that simple, believe me I’ve tried!
My brain just doesn’t like to switch off, it really doesn’t. Even when I’m tired and exhausted my brain still wants to keep going. It’s non stop in my little world.
If it isn’t the internet, it’s playing games, if it’s not playing games it’s organising my room (once in a blue moon!). If it isn’t doing that, it’s just sitting up trying to sleep. It really is a challenge to sleep sometimes. Even when I was at my boarding school, I’d have to listen to the radio, and still my brain wouldn’t want me to sleep.
A few years back I took a job working nights, this didn’t help because I was so knackered in the mornings, I still didn’t want to sleep! Now this really messed my body up. Talk about walking zombies. I literally was.
I still do to this day have trouble sleeping, my body finally realises it needs sleep at around 4-5 am, and this is when I’m forced to put down the laptop and sleep.
I still haven’t found any solutions to sleeping like my other normal human beings. The only thing that ever gets me to sleep is being up more then 24 hours, and that does sometimes happen, or when I’m really really sick!
If you’ve got any tips to sleeping, or you struggle with it as well, let me know!
Signing out at 00:36!
