Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome (DSPS)

Affected people often report that while they do not get to sleep until the early morning, they do fall asleep around the same time every day. Unless they have another sleep disorder such as sleep apnea in addition to DSPD, patients can sleep well and have a normal need for sleep. However, they find it very difficult to wake up in time for a typical school or work day. If they are allowed to follow their own schedules, e.g. sleeping from 3:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, their sleep is improved and they may not experience excessive daytime sleepiness.

Attempting to force oneself onto daytime society's schedule with DSPD has been compared to constantly living with jet lag.

I put that in red. Great description.


Just do a search "Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome"

here > http://www.google.com/search?q=Delayed+Sleep+Phase+Syndrome


I put this in the anti psych forum because I believe the condition gets people sucked into the psychiatric nightmare. Like it did me.

I could never sleep "on time" , people would tell me that if I just got up early I would be tired at night.

I just got up early I would be tired at night ? Really ? Gee thanks Einstein but I tried that and it never works. I tried that 100 times and it never works. I am a night person I cant ###$ ing change that.

For a long time I felt like punching people right in their face when they gave me the get up early to be tired at night and fall sleep advice.

Just thought I would share with the forum "Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome"

My advice is if this sounds like what you have don't try and fight it. Everyone who knows me knows I don't do mornings or that early bird sh^t. Tried to fight it for years, took drugs to sleep , listened to stupid advice and suffered and I am still a night owl. Don't try and fight it, you wont win. Acceptance is the answer.

Hope this helps someone.

Read this while your at it too,

The myth of the eight-hour sleep

“In 2001, historian Roger Ekirch of Virginia Tech published a seminal paper, drawn from 16 years of research, revealing a wealth of historical evidence that humans used to sleep in two distinct chunks.

His book At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past, published four years later, unearths more than 500 references to a segmented sleeping pattern – in diaries, court records, medical books and literature, from Homer’s Odyssey to an anthropological account of modern tribes in Nigeria. ”

Read more http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16964783

Let Them Sleep: AAP Recommends Delaying Start Times of Middle and High Schools to Combat Teen Sleep Deprivation

https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/pages/let-them-sleep-aap-recommends-delaying-start-times-of-middle-and-high-schools-to-combat-teen-sleep-deprivation.aspx


Doctors keep speaking out about this. Did the schools care ? No.