Living with Delayed Sleep Phase SyndromeThis section is a place to share stories about Living with Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome. Below are entries of those who have already shared their stories. We hope that you find their experiences helpful to your own situation. You may also Help others by sharing your story. To quickly access health information from your website's browser, download I must be a lucky person! 
I must be a lucky person. All my life I have struggled with my sleep pattern. Not being able to fall asleep before 2 or 3 AM and then of course having a tough time getting up early the next morning. Being aware that I had to get up early the next morning even made matters worse. That would get me all worked up and I would fall asleep later and completely exhausted. As a teenager I missed early classes regularly and always had to come up with some kind of interesting new reason why I was not present. I couldn’t just tell them that I got up late. Somehow I succeeded to graduate from the HBS (one of the higher forms of secondary education in the Dutch system-before 1968). Lucky for me at the university where I continued my education many courses could be attended either in the morning or sometimes in the afternoon or evening. After successfully completing my study at the university I started my career and wondered how I would manage to get through this phase of my life. I have worked at the Department of Education as an educational psychologist head of the section, Educational Guidance. I am now 60 and retired. In all the years I worked, the Department of Education has had 4 consecutive Directors. For some odd reason they all “accepted” the situation that I worked a “different shift. I must be a lucky person that four different directors tolerated my starting hour and I am grateful to each of them. I can imagine that many people would have lost their jobs in the meantime. And then to think of it that I just recently learned that my condition has a name ..DSPS.
February 2009
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