Q: How Can I Help My Teen Learn to Mute His ADHD Brain at Bedtime?
During the day, your teen blurts out answers and acts on his every impulse. At night, he tosses and turns, unable to get a second of restful sleep. How are these two ADHD problems interrelated? Our Teen Parenting Coach explains.
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In addition to all the factors mentioned in the article, there is also the unmentioned small cohort of those with ADD/ADHD with difficulty being able to get to sleep, for whom an evening dose of their med slows their brain and allows them to fall asleep (as counterintuitive as that might sound)! Because the side effect of the ADD/ADHD medications interfering with sleep is much more common, this small cohort is often overlooked.
Have to agree with you on that, i didnt know i had ADHD all my life til 3 years ago. I had unknowingly self medicated with coffee and when younger, chocolate milk and as a teen coca cola. And pepsi. Not just one or two but all day . Coffee i drank approx 10 to twenty cups a day finishing at 9pm or 10pm or even later on weekends. Absolutely went to sleep instantaneously until I swtched to decaffe after i retired. As a teen in the armed forces I had no trouble rising at 6 or even earlier.
The switch to decaffe triggerred insomnia which along with a first diagnosed Major Depression later ADHd. Psych initially strongly suggested i limit to one cup of decaffe before 3 pm each day which did nothing for the insomnia. I am now back to a quart or two of decaffe aday, plus a cup or two of caffinated. 16 cups total and sleep like a baby . This is instead of Concerta xr which did nothing for me. One grandson on Vyvanse, son on ritalin.