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Re: Any F!S People With Sleep Disorders?

[(Anonymous)]

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But then stuff happened and unemployment caused me to realize my body's natural "day" is apparently about 26 hours rather than 24

Assuming you're the the anon who started this subthread, and not just someone else replying, it sounds like you don't have delayed sleep phase disorder, but non-24-hour sleep-wake disorder. I suspect I also have this, though I have never gotten a formal diagnosis, since there's no cure anyway.

Re: Any F!S People With Sleep Disorders?

[pantswarrior]

Ah, no, I'm not any of the other anons here, just someone chiming in with a couple decades of "work doesn't work with my sleep cycle", but for a slightly different reason.

But even with my slightly different issue, working nights caused a noticeable difference in my physical and mental health, so I can vouch for it just being a better option for some folks! I wish I could do my current job third shift. :P

Re: Any F!S People With Sleep Disorders?

[(Anonymous)]

working nights caused a noticeable difference in my physical and mental health, so I can vouch for it just being a better option for some folks!

Out of curiosity, how do you deal with being out of step with the rest of the world? For me it's just so isolating and kind of awful for that reason.

Like, on the one hand, when I have to get up and be functional in the morning, I am just ridiculously depressive. It's like this heavy, miserable pall over me that makes me want to lay down and not get up. And that goes away when I can get up later in the day. Plus the exhaustion from not getting enough sleep also goes away, of course. But on the other hand, when I'm up all night while the world is dark and everything is closed and everyone is sleeping, I get depressive in a different sort of way. It's a much less potent, smothering form of depression than the morning depression, but it also doesn't burn off at 2PM the way the morning depression does. I just go weeks and months feeling isolated and like I'm only halfway living in the world.

Is that not an issue for you, when you work nights?

Re: Any F!S People With Sleep Disorders?

[pantswarrior]

It really isn't! I seem to be at my most energetic and productive between about midnight and 3am, and it's been that way since I was a kid. I don't associate darkness with depression, anxiety, isolation, etc. because that's not what my experience with darkness has been. My longtime association with darkness is more a sense of relief, like now is the time I'm going to get stuff done. When I worked third shift, I got a ton of writing and drawing done when work wasn't busy (I wrote everything I wrote in the Ace Attorney fandom on my laptop in the back room of a gas station, hahahah), and on my nights off I could do all the housework and then sit down in front of the TV and do a bunch of creative stuff that I couldn't do at work, like sewing or other costuming work.

And when I didn't live alone, my partner would get up in the morning for her job, and we'd have breakfast or whatnot, then I'd drive her to work and I'd go home and go to sleep until it was time to pick her up. Then we could talk about whatever, go home and have dinner, play games and otherwise goof off for awhile before I had to leave for work (or on nights off, before she went to bed). Because she'd sleep when I was working, and I'd sleep when she was working, and it functionally was about the same as if we were both working the same hours and sleeping the same hours.

Re: Any F!S People With Sleep Disorders?

[(Anonymous)]

Interesting. I definitely feel my most energetic between like 8PM and 2AM, but for me that has always amounted to sitting in my room on my computer for long hours while the world sleeps around me, feeling isolated and wishing I hadn't slept through the day so I could maybe, just for once, actually get something done.

My body likes nighttime. My psyche yearns to get up early like everyone else and feel that unity with the world.