It turns out they were right. The whole time. Assholes. I’ve been doing a pretty consistent midnight to 9-9:30 for a couple of months, no screens in my bedroom, just a nightly podcast. And I’m usually asleep inside half an hour. Sometimes well inside. I still sometimes wake up during the night but that’s mainly cos of painful crampy legs from working on my feet all day.
I regret to report that sleep hygiene is in fact a thing.
Easy to say improve your sleep, sleep at the same time, get a full 8 hours but it's literally what separates those who excell at 'life' and those who don't.
I dont doubt for a second that if I was able to maintain proper sleep hygiene, my life would probs be 10x better right now, but I can't because it's literally the hardest thing in the world when you have ADHD that is super charging your anxiety and depresssion
2nd, any advice on working around that?
The one period in life I was able to manage it somewhat was when I perfected my melatonin regimen. Took it 2hours before bed time but those two hours were pretty much forfeit. You could try that.
Or weed, weed will help you sleep well but maintaining discipline and not letting the secondary effects of it impact your life is hard.
I've had the same issues with adhd, especially as tech becomes more commonplace. I've tried to just stick with books and old CD players at night because anything with internet access keeps me hooked for too long.