I've never had professional chronotherapy (though I've requested it many times), but I've tried it on myself quite a few times. The first instances were the often-mentioned "staying up to fix my sleep schedule" idea, which isn't proper chronotherapy but depriving yourself of sleep for one night until proper sleep time is reached. This only works for two or three days before things get fucked up again. I have tried something similar to chronotherapy in the summer, when school is out and I
@SlankorTheWankor have time to. I would sleep until the time that feels right (about 3 pm for me), and begin my day normally, but I would sleep later and later until desired sleep time is reached. For me this took about three weeks and kept me feeling good with a normal sleep schedule for about a week, then things slowly went back to normal (socially abnormal). Melatonin helped to a limited degree but caused me to be depressed, which is very unfortunate seeing as it is the only pill that would
@SlankorTheWankor supposedly work. I did not smoke but have used cannabis in high school recreationally on a few occasions. I decided that combusting cannabis about an hour before may work, and to my relief it did help. I now make foods with cannabis about once a week, and this is all I need to keep my sleeping schedule in check. I am hoping to get a medicinal marijana liscence for "insomnia." I hope that people who are suffering as I did for whom melatonin did not work, to look into cannabis.
I've had DSPS for two years now and its ruined my academic career. Im 18 with only basic qualifications even though i was always in the top 10% of my classes.
I've tried chronotherapy numerous times but for me the results don't last for more than a few weeks. Shorter still if i have a night out with friends soon after. So basically for me chronotherapy works but only if i limit my social life.
If anyone else has DSPS and has tried chronotherapy id love to hear your experience with it.
woke up at 5 in the afternoon yesterday. It's now 10 am and I haven't slept but hopefully I'll be able to stay awake till at least 9pm so I can get my body clock back in order. God it's so annoying that I have to do this constantly. At least I know whats wrong with me now haha
I've tried Chronography, it only worked for a few days. I think I am going to try Melatonin next, i really dont want to start taking sleep aids for a fear of getting addicted.
i have dsps and some times i cant get 2 bed till 6 in da morning i recommened smoking ganja 2 every 1 if i have a spliff just b4 bed im out cold within 10 mins!!! :)
It is 5 am right now and I will probably fall asleep at around 6am and wake up around 4ish. The only way for me to readjust myself is to stay up all day and then collapse at an appropriate time. Even then, the cycle continues again.
@takadi That is exactly what happens to me. I find myself staying up well into the next day in order for me to get on schedule, but I end up getting off schedule the next day, its so frustrating. Have you tried anything else?
Exercise in the morning, don't eat 2-3 hours before bedtime, and have extreme discipline. Emphasis on the last part. If you do fall back into the cycle, you have to force yourself to really wake up early or just find a day to stay up. I find keeping yourself really busy or scheduling your work or school hours early in the morning really helps. That way you have to wake up early
Thanks, I'll try that... Well I probably have no other choice now that I am enrolling back into school and getting a new job... but thankfully its a job where i can work nights....
I definately have this....Glad there is a name for it, but i highly doubt it's treatable. I was wondering if DSPS can affect a woman's period cycle? Cuz mine have been super off lately and i have been suffering with this for about...a year and a half i suppose. I have adapted my life around it, but everyone still calls me lazy cuz i don't have a job and i sleep all day.
@Hideko42490 My cycle is affected to, Im going to ask a doctor if this is the cause of it. Girl I feel you, my family calls me lazy all the time like I actually want to waste the whole day...
I have never in my life been able to sleep any time before 2am, and it always takes approximately three hours for me to get to sleep. Every night, it takes a little longer for me to get to sleep, leading me to believe that I have something like a 26 hour circadian cycle. Drugs don't help, meditation doesn't help, all-nighters don't help. I can only function in a state of perpetually inadequate rest and insomnia, which I compensate for by sleeping up to 12 hours a day on my days off.
i cant get to sleep whenever i want, but isint that really normal? i mean i find it hard to believe someone can just lay down and sleep without at least being sleepy or having 12hrs+ passed without sleep. i dont know if i exactly have this or if i can call what i have a sickness or w/e, but i cant get to sleep at night =( god i wish i could sleep regularly. usually i can get around to a normal schedual 12pm sleep, but then something comes up, then it's 2am... then 4am! then i'm sleeping at 4pm!
Oh give me a brake its not treatable for all people. I have it and trust me i have tried. i have been like this for over 13 years im 22. it takes me about 2 weeks of hell for 1 or 2 days on a "normal" cycle if im lucky, It takes all i can to try and sleep bye 2:30am. I have just started working around it. Well its 5:31am and im starting to get sleepy so im calling it a night. good luck all.
ah shit man. I'm in second year at uni and definately have DSPS, have done for years. But no doctors I've been to have known what it is. They've given me melatonin, but I became immune to it's effects (a few good nights sleep to start with though!). I've also been forcing myself to go to bed and get up following different patterns (eg an hour later each day) but nothing works. I always end up nocturnal. Next I'm going to try having a bright light wake me up each morning... so depressed... :(
I suspect I have this, but everyone thinks I'm just lazy, which is depressing, if I can sleep and wake up when I want I have lots of energy, but it's wasted cause there's not much to do at night.
I think I've been suffering from this for years. However my doctor won't diagnose me or refer me. It's so unfair. I've lost jobs because of it and more. I wish I was private instead of NHS!
You can also use Light Therapy,
nachocomm 2 weeks ago
I've never had professional chronotherapy (though I've requested it many times), but I've tried it on myself quite a few times. The first instances were the often-mentioned "staying up to fix my sleep schedule" idea, which isn't proper chronotherapy but depriving yourself of sleep for one night until proper sleep time is reached. This only works for two or three days before things get fucked up again. I have tried something similar to chronotherapy in the summer, when school is out and I
SlankorTheWankor 4 months ago
@SlankorTheWankor have time to. I would sleep until the time that feels right (about 3 pm for me), and begin my day normally, but I would sleep later and later until desired sleep time is reached. For me this took about three weeks and kept me feeling good with a normal sleep schedule for about a week, then things slowly went back to normal (socially abnormal). Melatonin helped to a limited degree but caused me to be depressed, which is very unfortunate seeing as it is the only pill that would
SlankorTheWankor 4 months ago
@SlankorTheWankor supposedly work. I did not smoke but have used cannabis in high school recreationally on a few occasions. I decided that combusting cannabis about an hour before may work, and to my relief it did help. I now make foods with cannabis about once a week, and this is all I need to keep my sleeping schedule in check. I am hoping to get a medicinal marijana liscence for "insomnia." I hope that people who are suffering as I did for whom melatonin did not work, to look into cannabis.
SlankorTheWankor 4 months ago
This is not going to treat the problem - I bet you anything he's right back to sleeping half the day
chunkybongo 5 months ago
not everyone can rotate their sleeping pattern
saulwilliams56 10 months ago
I've had DSPS for two years now and its ruined my academic career. Im 18 with only basic qualifications even though i was always in the top 10% of my classes.
I've tried chronotherapy numerous times but for me the results don't last for more than a few weeks. Shorter still if i have a night out with friends soon after. So basically for me chronotherapy works but only if i limit my social life.
If anyone else has DSPS and has tried chronotherapy id love to hear your experience with it.
tompants2010 1 year ago
Hey... what's ADD I forgot what it stands for.
peterstone14 1 year ago
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tompants2010 1 year ago
woke up at 5 in the afternoon yesterday. It's now 10 am and I haven't slept but hopefully I'll be able to stay awake till at least 9pm so I can get my body clock back in order. God it's so annoying that I have to do this constantly. At least I know whats wrong with me now haha
Phily19 1 year ago
@Phily19 omg i can so relate to this!!!
smarty3000 1 year ago
The thing is I don't think I want to fix it. I mean night is so pleasent... who would ever think of sleeping through it?
GingerSkittles911 1 year ago
This makes so much sense! I stay up all night and fall asleep during the day! I'm 14 and I was diagnosed with ADD a couple years ago.
GingerSkittles911 1 year ago
Hah same, I was diagnosed with ADD in 7th grade, about the same time as my sleep problems began to get serious.
ervin2 1 year ago
I have no idea what to do anymore i've had this for 2 years! 4am where I am right now.
LordofAnnoyence 1 year ago
I've tried Chronography, it only worked for a few days. I think I am going to try Melatonin next, i really dont want to start taking sleep aids for a fear of getting addicted.
MsFaffinette89 2 years ago
I would have loved to have been able to shove this in my high school teachers' faces because they all thought I just got really lazy.
NoobZandwich 2 years ago
i have dsps and some times i cant get 2 bed till 6 in da morning i recommened smoking ganja 2 every 1 if i have a spliff just b4 bed im out cold within 10 mins!!! :)
kenty4katie 2 years ago
It is 5 am right now and I will probably fall asleep at around 6am and wake up around 4ish. The only way for me to readjust myself is to stay up all day and then collapse at an appropriate time. Even then, the cycle continues again.
takadi 2 years ago
@takadi That is exactly what happens to me. I find myself staying up well into the next day in order for me to get on schedule, but I end up getting off schedule the next day, its so frustrating. Have you tried anything else?
MsFaffinette89 2 years ago
Exercise in the morning, don't eat 2-3 hours before bedtime, and have extreme discipline. Emphasis on the last part. If you do fall back into the cycle, you have to force yourself to really wake up early or just find a day to stay up. I find keeping yourself really busy or scheduling your work or school hours early in the morning really helps. That way you have to wake up early
takadi 2 years ago
Thanks, I'll try that... Well I probably have no other choice now that I am enrolling back into school and getting a new job... but thankfully its a job where i can work nights....
MsFaffinette89 2 years ago
Jhep I have the same problem. DSPS sucks.
phbfi 2 years ago
I definately have this....Glad there is a name for it, but i highly doubt it's treatable. I was wondering if DSPS can affect a woman's period cycle? Cuz mine have been super off lately and i have been suffering with this for about...a year and a half i suppose. I have adapted my life around it, but everyone still calls me lazy cuz i don't have a job and i sleep all day.
Someone help me...please....
Hideko42490 2 years ago
@Hideko42490 My cycle is affected to, Im going to ask a doctor if this is the cause of it. Girl I feel you, my family calls me lazy all the time like I actually want to waste the whole day...
MsFaffinette89 2 years ago
I have never in my life been able to sleep any time before 2am, and it always takes approximately three hours for me to get to sleep. Every night, it takes a little longer for me to get to sleep, leading me to believe that I have something like a 26 hour circadian cycle. Drugs don't help, meditation doesn't help, all-nighters don't help. I can only function in a state of perpetually inadequate rest and insomnia, which I compensate for by sleeping up to 12 hours a day on my days off.
UGH.
pyxlated 2 years ago
It almost sounds like you have Non-24-hour sleep-wake syndrome.
Heyaut 2 years ago
i cant get to sleep whenever i want, but isint that really normal? i mean i find it hard to believe someone can just lay down and sleep without at least being sleepy or having 12hrs+ passed without sleep. i dont know if i exactly have this or if i can call what i have a sickness or w/e, but i cant get to sleep at night =( god i wish i could sleep regularly. usually i can get around to a normal schedual 12pm sleep, but then something comes up, then it's 2am... then 4am! then i'm sleeping at 4pm!
zerohirocloud 2 years ago
Im a night owel i can stay up super late XD
but i dont have that
supercolin12 2 years ago
try exercise
and i mean that seriously
can be as simple as a 20 minute brisk walk
i have the same goddamn problem but the exercise helps to a degree
4:00 AM :\
beertron7 3 years ago
Oh give me a brake its not treatable for all people. I have it and trust me i have tried. i have been like this for over 13 years im 22. it takes me about 2 weeks of hell for 1 or 2 days on a "normal" cycle if im lucky, It takes all i can to try and sleep bye 2:30am. I have just started working around it. Well its 5:31am and im starting to get sleepy so im calling it a night. good luck all.
akaJoo 3 years ago
ah shit man. I'm in second year at uni and definately have DSPS, have done for years. But no doctors I've been to have known what it is. They've given me melatonin, but I became immune to it's effects (a few good nights sleep to start with though!). I've also been forcing myself to go to bed and get up following different patterns (eg an hour later each day) but nothing works. I always end up nocturnal. Next I'm going to try having a bright light wake me up each morning... so depressed... :(
Sapient192 3 years ago
I suspect I have this, but everyone thinks I'm just lazy, which is depressing, if I can sleep and wake up when I want I have lots of energy, but it's wasted cause there's not much to do at night.
georgieporgie321 3 years ago
Thats me.
nkelly3440 3 years ago
I think I've been suffering from this for years. However my doctor won't diagnose me or refer me. It's so unfair. I've lost jobs because of it and more. I wish I was private instead of NHS!
LondonStarGirl 3 years ago
I think I have this.
Heyaut 3 years ago
haha that's amusing...I'm watching this at 2:40 am on a school night, youtube FTW =]
arapanasati 3 years ago