Sleep and ADHD

Sleep On Demand: How To Fall Asleep By Choice

by Rob

Sleep and ADHD - Sleep On Demand

Sleep and ADHD have a delicate relationship. 

When you’re trying to get some extra shut eye, there are a whole range of factors at play. There’s the levels of melatonin in your body, the chemicals you’ve recently imbibed (like caffeine, ginseng, kava and other stimulants/depressants), your environment, mind state and stress and anxiety levels. Getting all of these factors to play nicely together can make it difficult to sleep when you have ADHD.

At the time of being diagnosed with ADHD my sleep patterns were all over the place. I was lucky to get in four solid hours per night (sometimes it was self inflicted), rarely slept right through and woke up feeling like I was running on fumes.

Over the last few years, I’ve learned a lot of things. A lot of this was from when I proudly survived on minimal sleep (although in many ways, I hated it), and as I’ve improved my sleeping habits they’ve served me well.
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3 Reasons You Need To Get More Sleep When You Have ADHD

by Rob

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One common challenge for people looking for people with ADHD is getting sleep that matters. Depending on who we are, we either avoid it completely or don’t get the quality that our body so badly needs.

The benefits of sleep can’t be overlooked. From looking good to being mentally switched-on, getting seriously good sleep will give you the ability to be at the top of your game and overcome your ADHD on a daily basis. Think you can do this by powering yourself through the face with caffeine? Think again. Sure, coffee can help cure cancer but sleep deprivation leads to death.

What Ever Happened To “Sleep When You’re Dead”?

For the majority of my teens, as well as early twenties, “Sleep When You’re Dead” was my motto. I figured I was invincible, that I could get away with little to no sleep and live to tell the tale.

I was lucky.

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