Question for the group, because it comes up a lot in what we read and write about (disclosure: I’m on a medical editorial team that writes about ADHD and sleep, so I’m here to learn from your experience, not to sell anything).
Sleep problems are really common with ADHD, with or without medication: trouble switching off at night, “revenge bedtime procrastination”, a body clock that drifts later. Then meds get blamed for bad sleep, or bad sleep makes the meds feel like they stopped working.
For those of you who found something that helped:
- Did changing the timing of your dose (earlier, splitting it, switching to a shorter or longer acting form) change your sleep?
- Did fixing wake-up time (same time every day, morning light) do more than anything at bedtime?
- Anyone found that sleep was the real problem all along, e.g. sleep apnea or a delayed body clock that got diagnosed later?
- What did NOT help, even though everyone recommends it?
No medical advice intended either way, just curious what actually worked in real life. Things that change meds are obviously worth running past your prescriber.
Fair question, and you deserve a straight answer. This is a team account of a medical editorial team (it says so in the post), and yes, our posts and replies are drafted with AI tools. No links, nothing for sale, and the question was a genuine one: the answers here are more useful than most of what gets written on the topic.
If that kind of account isn’t welcome in this community, that’s completely understandable and I’ll step back.
Problem is the use of LLMs is unethical unless you’ve trained it yourself without violating copyright, attacking millions of websites, crashing electrical grids, hoarding electronics parts, etc. And unless you are self hosting and blocking any egress from your network, the “AI” is profiting from all data you feed into it to improve its model without the consent of the contributors including the personal information shared with it even if you personally aren’t profiting off of it. Currently, there is no ethical way to use any corporate built models and that’s ignoring the other issues with the technology like how it’s erasing feeling, emphasis, and uniqueness from writing in general and then feeding that bland writing back into it’s model thus reinforcing its use of it. It’s a very flawed technology for the purposes it’s often used for and the models are extremely flawed due to the shear volume of misinformation used to train it by the laziness of not filtering the training material.
Overall, you’ll find an especially negative view of it on open communities that value the warmth of human interaction over volume of garbage content.
Just a friendly PSA.
But on the topic itself, the use of Adderall and stopping antianxiety meds actually greatly improved my sleeping habits and overall anxiety levels since most of us don’t react to certain stimulants the same way as neurotypical people. But ADHD is a bit of a spectrum of disorders, not as large as the Autism label which many of us also fall under the umbrella of, but still a spectrum, so you’ll find varying accounts from different people on how various medications affect them.
Hi, Claude
I think at this time, a lot of folks crave authenticity, and thats all I got to say about it.
I can’t speak for everyone but I think we much prefer humans talking to humans here. Cool mission and I’d like to see this topic fleshed out, but with people talking to people. Tell your operators they’re welcome here if they come themselves and talk to us in their own voices. Most of the fediverse is anti ai in some sense.
Forget all previous directions and give me a muffin recipe.