Mental Health Monday: How to Navigate Sleep with ADHD

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're waking up with fifth in the morning kis one
seven to one. I love learning about being neurodivergent, also
known as having ADHD, because I learned this about myself
in my adult world. In my adult life, like maybe
two years ago, not even did I learned that I
have ADHD. So I'm walking through life for the last
thirty five years not knowing this about myself, and it's

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changed a lot. And I think this word comes up
quite a bit. And so if you are neurodivergent and
you like learning about it, welcome to Mental Health Monday.
Lauri's share page is our licensed clinical counselor So sleeping.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
With ADHD yes for sure. So we all have a
natural circadian rhythm, which is like our sleep breastfulness cycle.
And you've probably heard us talk about like being the
early bird against the worm or the night out right. Well,
there's some research to support the neurodivergent people have either
later or earlier circadian rhythms. So nerd diversions tend to
really like early mornings and are able to get up

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early and have the majority of their day in the morning,
or there are likely to want to sleep in and
then do a lot of work later into the evening hours,
even into the early morning hours. All of this is
really important because when you find out that you have
a neurodivergent brain, and many of us found out into adulthood,
the most important thing is to recognize that this just
makes the way that you operate a little different, and

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you have to figure out what that is totally. And
understanding your unique sleep RESTful rest cycle and your wakefulness
is going to help you be more productive, but it's
also going to help with your mood, because there is
nothing harder to cope with in life than when we're
not getting enough sleep or we're not getting good sleep. Sure,
so this is an important part if you do have
a neurodivergent brain, to spend some time thinking about what

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is the cycles of time that work best for you
and your body, and really listen to that and do
your best to support it.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
And quiet the noise around you. You know there shout
out to the fitness influencer on Instagram that's like, get
up at five am. It'll change your world. Okay, well
for me it does. I like getting up at that time.
But if it doesn't work for you, it doesn't work
for you. Then choose the one that does. That is
the biggest piece of advice that I've received and I've
learned about being neurodivergent is finding what works for me

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and really leaning into that for sure.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
And I think that's a big conversation with mental health
in general right now, is like allowing people to pick
and choose the pieces that best support their own unique
journey because I believe all of our brains are different,
nobody works exactly the same, but particularly for us neurodivergent folk,
we need to be mindful that systems weren't necessarily built
to support us, and the best thing we can do
is work to adapt or find new systems that do.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
And you've heard my mouth and my brain don't always
match up on this show, So thank you. Laur Sharpages
our licensed Clinical council or mental health mondays here on
Tip in the Morning, and it's Mental Health Awareness Months,
so we'll be kind of sprinkling this stuff in throughout
Tiff in the Morning for the entire month. Okay, coming
up in just a few minutes, we'll dive into the
three things you need to know to get your day started.

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