It's a double whammy: ADHD makes it harder to get enough sleep, and being sleep deprived makes it harder to manage your ADHD (or anything else). AriTuckman
“I have trouble getting to bed on time. There is always something that tempts me to stay up later. I average about five hours of sleep a night. Not until recently did I link my sleep shortage with other problems in my life — doing a poor job at work, doing a poor job in my marriage, and overreacting to life’s bumps in the road.
In fact, research shows that sleep deprivation has a particularly detrimental effect on attention functioning among young adults with ADHD, according to a study recently published in theSleep deprived participants with ADHD experienced relatively worse omission errors, commission errors, and delayed reaction time. Additionally,will affect stimulant medication efficacy. You won’t get the full benefit from the medication because your tired brain is operating less than optimally before you take it.
can be cumulative. So give yourself credit for the progress that you are making. And regardless of how you did with sleep last night, make tonight a good one.Many of my clients who are sleep-deprived don’t have a set bedtime. It could be midnight or 2 a.m. This vagueness may be somewhat intentional, but it makes it impossible to manage time through the night, since there is no deadline to manage time against. Therefore, set a bedtime and think of it as you would a deadline at work.
can make it harder to manage the evening schedule and get into bed on time. See what works best for you. Ari Tuckman, Psy.D., CST, is a psychologist, ADHD expert, and certified sex therapist. His fourth book isDan, O., Cohen, A., Asraf, K., Saveliev, I., & Haimov, I. . The Impact of Sleep Deprivation on Continuous Performance Task Among Young Men With ADHD.
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