Evidence-basedAuDHD lived experienceBuying guide If you’ve read the rest of this series, you already know the honest complication: timing relative to your own clock matters more than raw intensity, and one real trial found a bright-light protocol no better than plain room light. So why buy a lamp at all? Because reliably getting bright, consistent…
Evidence-basedAuDHD lived experienceLight and the clock “Get morning light” is genuinely good advice. It is also usually delivered without the one detail that actually determines whether it does anything: the timing has to be relative to your own clock, not a fixed hour on the wall. 7am light does very different things depending on whether…
Evidence-basedAuDHD lived experienceCircadian genetics Somewhere, someone has told you to just go to bed earlier. You have probably tried it. You lay there, wide awake, for an hour or two, then eventually fell asleep at roughly the same time you always do — just with more time spent staring at the ceiling first. That is…
Evidence-basedAuDHD lived experienceCircadian biology You are not bad at mornings. If you are AuDHD, there is a real chance your internal clock is genuinely running on a different schedule than the one your alarm expects — and the two most common explanations get lumped together when they are actually different problems with different biology underneath…
Evidence-basedAuDHD lived experienceCircadian physiology Shift work does not just move when you sleep. It puts your autonomic nervous system — the same system covered in our vagus nerve guide — into a state of chronic, measurable strain. Workers whose body clocks have not adapted to their shift pattern show higher sympathetic dominance during daytime sleep…
Evidence-basedAuDHD lived experienceSleep medicine You have probably seen the claim: humans used to sleep in two segments, a ‘first sleep’ and ‘second sleep’, with an hour of quiet wakefulness in between. Waking at 2am is not a problem, the story goes — it is your ancestors’ natural pattern reasserting itself. It is a genuinely comforting…
Evidence-basedAuDHD lived experienceBehavioural sleep medicine You moved to days. Or you left the job entirely. The schedule that broke your sleep is gone — but the insomnia is not. This is not in your head, and it is not a sign you did something wrong. It is a recognised pattern: once disrupted sleep runs long…