Delayed sleep-phase syndrome

On 15 January 2008, I walked into a pharmacy and ask for medicine to make me fall into sleep. I always has sleeping problem, possibly caused by my bad sleeping habit while I was young. This problem exacerbates while I am in my current job, long working hours is required for sure as I am working in an audit firm. As a result, we tend to go back late. My problem is more on inability to sleep early and unable to get up in the morning due to overnight fatigue or short sleeping hours.

And the problem becomes worst to the extent that I come to work two hours late, which is very bad.

Because of this, I decided to control my own sleeping hours. So I start read somethings about insomnia. When I Google it, I find out various type of sleeplessness:- from the most common insomnia to something like, sleep inertia, advanced sleep phase syndrome (contrary to my sleep problem), non 24 hours sleep wake syndrome, etc.

Definitely I don't need sleeping pills to make me sleep , Delayed sleep-phase syndrome (DSPS), is a chronic disorder of the timing of sleep, peak period of alertness. People with DSPS tend to fall asleep well after midnight and also have difficulty waking up in the morning.

I often cannot sleep until early morning, which is after 2am (at least) and have a normal need for sleep. Therefore, I find it very difficult to wake up in time for a typical work day since I have only slept for a few hours. However, I can sleep soundly, wake up spontaneously, and do not feel sleepy again until my next "night" if I am allowed to follow my own late schedule.

Worst, I can not simply take a nap during noon or evening, cause If I do, I will not be able to sleep before 4am. I also maintain several alarm clocks and always ask my housemate, family to wake me up if there is any urgent meeting I need to attend early in the morning.

In conclusion, my biological clock inside my body is in a state of disorder. And because of that, I believe that I have been stereotyped as an undisciplined person.

Well, research / report also shows that half of the DSPS patients has clinical depression, wow, do I have it? No idea, but I believe that my works is giving me lots of stress cause I keep thinking about it most of the time, deadlines, deadlines, deadlines... ... ... On the other hand, it could be that DSPS is causing my depression cause it is such an disorder which I can not expect other to understand.

Well, I just need to see doctor........................... may be. T.T

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