Current sleep schedule: totally fucked

[conuly]

No idea how to get it anywhere near a track, either. ANY track.

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Comments

[low_delta]

Pick a daily bedtime and a rise time. Don't go to bed before bedtime. Don't go to bed until you're tired enough to fall asleep. If you don't fall asleep withing 20 minutes, get out of bed. Always get up at your rise time. No matter what.

[conuly]

I don't think my situation is going to be easily resolved with the same tricks everybody else uses. When I'm functioning more or less normally it's usual for my bedtime to increment upwards by 1 - 3 hours daily for a while, then snap back. When I'm not, it's... not good. I've been having some days where I'm not tired at all for 20+ hours, and others where I'm tired the entire day, no matter how much sleep I get.

Speaking to a doctor is sorta on the list, but honestly I don't wanna.

[low_delta]

Well, unless you think there's a medical explanation, they're probably going to refer you to a sleep psychologist, who will tell you similar to what I told you. That's who I got it from.

[conuly]

I think there very likely is a medical explanation, because what you suggest hasn't worked for me over the past 20 years.

Edit: Or to be clear, I think there is a minimum of 2 medical explanations, one of which can be resolved with birth control (I get completely wiped out the first few days of my period and just before, resulting in a lot of sleep, waaaaay more than usual) and one of which can't (I can maintain a regular wake-up time, with effort, but I can't maintain a normal bedtime because the time at which I feel sleepy is later every day - "don't go to bed if you won't fall asleep within 20 minutes" is what gets me into this mess in the first place.)

[low_delta]

Hopefully, it's the first one, and can be easily fixed with medication.

[marahmarie]

It sounds like a sleep phase disorder (the blind can have a particularly nasty version though I think some sighted folk can have it, too). We basically travel around the clock as far as sleep/rise times go. I've had some version of it from shift work and being a night owl forced into a day schedule since my teens (I was a night owl even as a child).

Oh (edit) forgot to mention it's the same for me as far as being especially tired in the days before and during that time go. Exactly the same. I think hormones can play in as well, or at the least worsen whatever sleep irregularity might already be in play that might otherwise be more easily tamed.

Feeling it...*hugs*

[conuly]

I've actually considered that. Circadian disorders are yet another condition that's a. understudied b. much more common than people think and c. comorbid with autism.

But just because I've read about something and lots of autistic people have it doesn't mean that I do. Trying to resist the urge to think that way.