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Sad little autist

This is me not sleeping well at night. I usual wake at around 1.30 after going to sleep at 11.30 and struggle to get back for hours. If I'm lucky, it's later like 3 or 4. 30.
Do you take any stimulants?
Caffeine is my addiction, and I know I will damage my sleep pattern.
I'm working on wrecking my health as we speak. :cool:
 
Do you take any stimulants?
Caffeine is my addiction, and I know I will damage my sleep pattern.
I'm working on wrecking my health as we speak. :cool:
I do drink a little coffee and tea. I think they help a tad with my pretty extreme untreated ADHD "combined types".
 
Some ppl gain from caffeine by taming ADHD, to some degree at least.
But it might make your insomnia worse.
No surprises there.
Is it worth it when proper sleep is an overwhelming benefit in developing emotional stability?
 
Caffeine helps me with some ADHD symptoms and if I don't drink it past 6pm I'm fine. The post-caffeine crash helps me fall asleep too :P I have "natural" insomnia.
 
Coffee never affected me much, increases my body temperature and makes me wee more. On cold winter nights I like a coffee before bed and it never keeps me awake.
 
Neri you have had a really hard time and my thoughts are with you.

I wil suggest a few things. I think you may have a sensory report, if you can access it, read through it and see if there is anything that may be helpful now and their communications, advise. Me I'll be getting out my drum later and giving a good go.

Also may be you have a sensory kit, look through it and perhaps use something of it if you feel you want to.

Sometimes problems can just seem too much that you have to drop them and do something that is going to make you feel better and and sometimes may behave like a warrior looking for something that you make you feel sweeter for the suffering. For your case supporting victims of abuse someway or something else. Something to be grabbed to be sweeter?

It doesn't have to reach that level and I think you may have grandchildren and even a little few moments with them without the world jargons and get some quality and fun games. If your artistic I think you are creating little personal books depending on age.

Of course I hope you don't cross someone like that again and when you're ready, see if you can avoid these types, but you need to work on yourself, take the time and healing for yourself that you need and try and be good to yourself and get some rest.
 
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