Posted by clipper40 on December 21, 2007, at 0:16:31
In reply to Re: Things turn 'on' around 7:00 » linkadge, posted by saturn on December 20, 2007, at 18:51:54
You can have both adrenal fatigue and delayed sleep phase syndrome. From what I have read, they often go hand in hand. Delayed sleep phase people tend to be night owls and they tend to want to go to sleep later each night. The part that you describe of not feeling awake until many hours after you've gotten up sounds like the adrenal fatigue part. Since people with this problem don't feel alive until many hours after getting out of bed. They're finally feeling normal and alive and mentally sharper very late in the day so they don't want to go to sleep at that point. They want to finally get some things done and savor the feeling of awakeness. So you can see how each condition would feed the other.
I'm quite certain I have both conditions and it's very tough for me to deal with. I'm having a lot of trouble getting on, and staying on, a normal schedule. I'm also finding it very difficult to get anything accomplished. It's that much harder because most other people don't understand either of these conditions.
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