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Wow im glad
by: VS on Wed, Jan 02 2008
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I am 17 years old and I have always been a “night owl”. I usually go to sleep around 5-7am and wake up at 3 or 4pm its horrible. I left my public high school and enrolled in a homeschool because it was so hard for me to wake up. I was doing poorly in public high school, but in homeschool im doing great. I would say this started around the age of 14 i honestly cannot remember.

But it has effected me greatly my mother thinks im lazy and not disiplined and i was starting to believe that myself. No matter what i did i would still always go to bed in the wee hours of the morning. I tried sleeping pills (lunesta)which did not work, even if i was sleep deprived i would still go to bed late. I absolutely could not wake up in the morning. I was working at my first job which started at 9am and i would only get 1 to 2 hours of sleep and i would feel so horrible at work, I eventually quit. I knew this would be a huge problem for me in the future but i am so happy i found out about this and that i found out now instead of when im 40.
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  1. Wed, Jan 16 2008
    You are so fortunate to have found this out now! Now you know, if you go onto College, to take classes in the afternoons and evenings...avoid any cla...Read

January 2008

  • problems with dsps - by Terry - (Mon, Jan 21 2008)
    Hello I only found this site 2 weeks ago and to know im not on my own with this problem has halved the guilt feelings I have … Iv been on every sleeper you can think of, [more..]
  • DSPS for 53 years..just didn’t know the name! - by Nightweaver - (Thu, Jan 17 2008)
    I love the internet. Most my life I fought this disorder, not knowing it had a name (well, most of my life it didn’t have a name). Recieved mediocre grades in high school because math and science courses were always in the mornings. [more..]
  • Relief - by Laura - (Mon, Jan 07 2008)
    I am so relieved: my New Year’s resolution was to sort myself out in terms of sleeping hours. I knew that as many many years before this would be a nightmare, so I googled ’sleeping rhythm’ just in case I’d find any tips for becoming a better sleeping person. [more..]
  • Wow im glad - by VS - (Wed, Jan 02 2008)
    I am 17 years old and I have always been a “night owl”. I usually go to sleep around 5-7am and wake up at 3 or 4pm its horrible. I left my public high school and enrolled in a homeschool because it was so hard for me to wake up. I was doing poorly in public high school, but in homeschool im doing great. [more..]

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