Sleepy
Alas, I was looking forward today to writing a reflection on the one-week anniversary of OccupyMN, but this will have to wait til tomorrow. I have a rare sleep disorder called by many names, but I usually refer to it as either non-24 sleep-wake disorder, or hypernychthemeral disorder, whichever comes to my mind first. I am neurologically wired to run a 25-hour day, not 24. I began this past summer a standard treatment of melatonin, which to this point had worked really well, but this week I’ve taken a beating, and I really need to go to sleep early tonight–after not being able to get a wink last night–in order to throw myself back into a diurnal schedule.
Posted on 14 October, 2011, in Uncategorized and tagged Non-24-hour sleep-wake syndrome, occupy, personal life, writing. Bookmark the permalink. 3 Comments.
Whittier… thank you for sharing. I’m really sorry to hear about your sleep disorder… I can’t imagine what that must feel like. I hope you can get some sleep tonight!
John
It leaves you in a situation where, so often, you do your absolute best, and then your absolute best turns out to be not nearly good enough.
I didn’t get a proper diagnosis til last spring. Folks don’t understand why it’s not a matter of simply setting an extra alarm–if I’m in the wrong phase of sleep, I’m not going to hear it. (For the record, I do run both my clock-radio and my cell phone to go off, each at different times, each twice.)