No, really. I think I do.
I think I have delayed sleep phase syndrome. When I read the Wiki article, I felt like someone had been spying on me all of my life and then wrote this article.
I thought it was a joke at first. But, that's really an accurate description of me. I have all the challenges and emotions in that article. And the problem started when I was in middle school. I just started staying up and couldn't go to sleep one summer. And that become natural to me.
Dude! I'm living in the wrong time zone!
The problem with this disorder is that if I had trouble taking it seriously and I have it . . . who else will take it seriously?
Not my employer on my dreaded 8 to 5 job.
Honestly, I really, really, really like (not quite love, just like) my job.
I hate mornings. Mornings is what makes my job "dreaded".
I wish I worked at nights, could sleep all day, and run around town in the evenings before and after work.
If I could work from 2:00 PM to 11:00 PM every day, I'd be in hog heaven!
My struggle with my coffee addiction doesn't help one bit. Coffee just makes the vicious cycle worse. Lately I've drank tea in place of coffee. I get by, but man-oh-man do I miss grinding coffee beans and slipping on that rich, hot, fresh coffee with sugar and creme and . . .
OK, I'd better quit that.
Hell, my coffee deprivation runs deep enough to where I'll drink grocery store brand instant coffee at this point!
I don't drink coffee, so I can't get with you there. But I know what you mean about sleep. I cannot fall asleep before midnight. It does not matter what I do all day or how early I get up. It is like my body is hardwired to believe that if I sleep before midnight, I might never wake up.
ReplyDeleteWho knows. But it is damn annoying.
I am SO addicted to coffee. If I live to retire, I think I'll open a coffee shop, just so I can make up for all the coffee I'm abstaining from. I abstain from coffee nowadays because I just barely survive the 8 to 5 world as it is. Coffee throws my sleep cycle off even more!
ReplyDeleteI have so much trouble going to be before midnight. It's almost an impossibility. I can swear to myself I'll hit the sack at 10:00 or even 11:00. Hell, 11:30 PM.
I can't do it except on rare occasions.
And I'm not one of those that get by very well on 5 hours of sleep, either.
You sound like you've got delayed sleep phase syndrome, too.
Oh, and according to the official Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders that psychologist use, caffeine addition is a mental disorder.
So I have a sleep disorder and a mental disorder, too.
Can a person get some disability around here?!
:-D
Yeah..I would be all for collecting my disability too...except...well...I got my first "notice" from SSA about what my benefits would be today if I started collecting now and...effing hell that is not enough to live off of!
ReplyDeleteBut nice to know I definitely have a mental disorder... :D