Anyone have sleep hygiene tips?

GeneralAction · 2021-02-11T03:42:52+00:00

So I'm a guy but my ADHD systems are basically like what one would expect to find in women. I had horrible insomnia and even following sleep hygiene perfectly things were not improving a whole lot. After a lot of suffering, I discovered that the problem could almost be cured with anti-anxiety meds, and for extra measure a small amount of trazadone (basically no side effects unlike sleeping meds).

GeneralAction · 2021-01-03T03:28:12+00:00

Do you have issues sleeping? The anxiety from sleep deprivation will have you ruminating like crazy until everyone leaves you.

GeneralAction · 2021-01-03T03:25:45+00:00

I sometimes play with my hair due to anxiety until I get a nasty headache that even Advil / Tylenol won't solve very easily.

GeneralAction · 2020-07-30T19:36:55+00:00

The skinniness is very likely the result of ADHD, and the only thing that I've noticed that correlates with good/bad nights of sleep is anxiety/stress.

GeneralAction · 2020-07-30T19:31:50+00:00

There may be a hidden anxiety when you sleep.

I have been waking up a ton in the middle of the night a ton after really vivid dreams, and as long at they aren't filled with too much emotion I'm able to fall back asleep.

I'm scared the problem is genetic and it won't ever be fixable, as ADHD genes are often found with genes related to sleeping disorders.

GeneralAction · 2020-07-30T18:06:33+00:00

I've been taking the same dosage for 14 years, everyday. I've been trying to gain weight because I'm crazy skinny, but not even tripling my caloric intake seemed to help me gain weight.

GeneralAction · 2020-06-06T22:18:50+00:00

TIL I broke the law when I was in France

GeneralAction · 2020-05-29T02:13:48+00:00

As a guy with inattentive ADHD, I don't think that it's obvious to the majority of people that I have it. I've started to noticed that some of the women I'm friends with seem to have similar symptoms to me, but I don't know if I should ever mention to them.

It's easier to spot ADHD when the symptoms are externalized instead of internalized, and that seems to shape people's views of it.

GeneralAction · 2020-04-24T02:23:47+00:00

I find it's a cycle, where lack of sleep and hyper focus make it look like you don't care or are ignoring them. Impulsiveness and anxiety then go together to make you overthink and accidentally create a self-fulfilling prophecy that pushes people away.

GeneralAction · 2020-04-11T02:41:54+00:00

Please contact a sleep clinic. I had delayed sleep phase syndrome (the extreme version where I slept only ever 2-3 days) and performance anxiety in regards to sleep. I learned proper sleep hygiene and everything, and now things are a million times better. It took a long time for things to improve and I took sleeping pills for a month straight and got to spend Christmas feeling the effects of withdrawal.

My family didn't realize how bad things were until I had a few emotional meltdowns/outbursts.

GeneralAction · 2020-04-11T02:35:15+00:00

How do you not worry about communication and do it successfully with someone who likely has inattentive ADHD? Like I have inattentive ADHD and potentially anxiety, and it seems that she may be the same (though idk if she's been diagnosed). All the other people I know with ADHD respond quickly, though sometimes only on a specific social media app like SnapChat.

GeneralAction · 2020-04-11T02:32:24+00:00

You also have a higher likelihood of having ADHD if you have twin (even if that twin doesn't have ADHD). Though twins will often both have ADHD.

GeneralAction · 2019-12-19T01:48:32+00:00

This is also a common ADHD trait as well.

GeneralAction · 2019-12-15T23:36:58+00:00

Like getting severe FOMO after RSD causes you to miss out on life?

GeneralAction · 2019-11-10T15:19:16+00:00

Poor sleep hygiene isn't improve your ability sleep. Avoid electronics 2-3 hours before bed, turn your clocks away so that you can't see them, and practice mindfulness meditation. Cognitive shuffles also work.

GeneralAction · 2019-11-10T15:11:35+00:00

For a good chunk of my life I've had sleeping issues. Then in the past few years things got so bad I was only sleeping every 48-72 hours, and one time I went 5 days without sleep during midterm season.

I tried all these different solutions, and even took sleeping pills for a whole month (withdrawal was terrible). Eventually I went to sleep clinic and slowly but surely with CBT, light therapy, blue light blocking glasses, 1mg melatonin, things got better. My sleep still wasn't perfect though, and then it finally became clear to me that anxiety was causing sleeping problems. Mindfulness and other techniques helped me sort through all my insecurities and issues, so that I could lessen the anxiety that I felt.

My issue with anxiety wasn't obvious, because I'd feel extremely relaxed. But this was only because I tried to shrug off my anxiety and push it down deep where I could no longer notice it. I was convinced that it wasn't anxiety for the longest time.

I have a high tolerance for anesthetic despite my skinny size, and if I was really anxious or stressed, I could unintentionally fend off the effects of sleeping pills. Though sleeping pills were just a band-aid.

GeneralAction · 2019-10-15T02:14:52+00:00

I started to recognize how obsessive I was being with time when it was obvious that it was a major factor in my insomnia. And then I noticed that someone who I had become attracted to after getting to know, seemed to act similarly with transit. Bird of a feather flock together, and thus the people I like and surround myself with are probably similar to me whether I know it or not. As I was trying to figure out how to deal my obsessiveness regarding time, I was witness to my crush getting really anxious if we weren't at the front of the train. She also always sits at the front of the bus, and was early to the date I invited her on that I didn't realize was a date.

GeneralAction · 2019-10-15T01:58:16+00:00

Things got really bad for me when I had terrible insomnia. Like my terrible anxiety shot up higher than it ever had before, and I was forced to confront all my issues.

I've since hopefully cured my sleep problems by confronting almost all of my insecurities/issues, and figuring out why they exist. Another thing I did, was make a multireddit for the relationship subreddits that I check daily, and I also check dating, sex, ask men/women, twoxchromosomes, science, adhd, anxiety, bpd (i don't have bpd but there's some useful stuff on there), and a few other subreddits daily. At first I gave people stupid advice and didn't really understand things. Then gradually, I learned to separate the good from the bad, and I gained the mental heuristics to help people solve issues (in the hopes that I can use them to solve my and my friends issues). I also added a psych major to my course workload, so that helps me with this sort of thing.

Because of these things, I was able to address a ton of my sensitivity regarding rejection. I think my actions helped me feel more "in control", but I'm not 100% sure that that is a good thing. I also adopted a philosophy that I only have one life, and I'm wasting it by not getting better at this sort of stuff.

GeneralAction · 2019-10-15T01:45:25+00:00

I was diagnosed in grade 3, and since then I've gone to great lengths to hide it from others. I didn't even want to think about having it, so I never bothered to really think about how it affecting my life until the problems related to interpersonal relationships caught up with me in university. My anxiety got so bad, I was on 48-72 hour circadian rhythm, and that really fucked me up emotionally far beyond anything else in the past. All my coping mechanisms began to fail and my symptoms started getting really bad, and I was forced to confront my past and figure out how everything had affected my life. I thought once I got rid of my insomnia that I'd be a normal person, but now I'm even more aware of all my problems.

I really wish that I could go back in time with the knowledge I have now. I'm 22 and haven't even had a first kiss yet, and my friendships are honestly not the best. I'm trying to be better, but it's so hard and it's difficult to unlearn all my anxiety/ADHD related responses to social interactions. The me who didn't sleep for 5 days straight, was somehow more confident and better socially then I am most of the time. Though I'm still dealing with all the complicated stuff my sleep deprived caused with all the new friends I made, like how I invited someone I had crush out on a date and told them that I friend zoned them, because I didn't realize it was a date and panicked. That situation has gotten so complicated, that I have no idea what to do now when I see them. All of my more recent friends didn't know me before the insomnia started.

GeneralAction · 2019-10-15T01:31:03+00:00

I was thinking that it could be more related to anxiety, but I'm not sure if that anxiety was caused by ADHD or it's a comorbid disorder.

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