If I slept better, I’d have missed watching this at 5:50 AM PST ❤️

Everyone watching this after 1am

Often times I'm on the couch almost falling asleep. Okay then, let's slowly stand up, crouch to the (dark) bathroom, brush teeth calmly, lay in bed smoothly. Boom, wide awake👍 Noice

It sucks, working 8 hours a day, commuting and keeping up with social obligations sucks the life out of you, then you get home to workout and eat dinner and then it's time to go to bed...it's depressing. The late hours of the night are my favorite it just sucks to be tired through out the day.

I have never felt so seen and heard before. Every psychiatrist since I was 12 has misdiagnosed me or not actually taken the time to hear all my symptoms and help me understand what my brain is doing and what it needs to feel better. Thank you Dr. marks ❤ you’re a wonderful human

Give the animator a raise! 😊 it makes the video very approachable

I always feel like such a toddler whenever I throw a mini tantrum by myself about having to go to bed. Hate bedtime, it's so mindnumbingly boring and at the same time really agitating having to lie down and not do things until you just fall asleep. :P

this makes so much sense. i've had trouble explaining why I just can't get to bed and i just can't turn off the computer, because ADHD brain is always seeking stimulation, which makes you lose track of time, then boom it's suddenly 4am and I'm not even tired yet.

Falling asleep feels almost unnatural unless I’m exhausted enough that’s it’s more like passing out than falling asleep. Random thoughts and natural curiosity, anxiety, and muscle twitches/spasms all impact falling asleep for me. Add that to problems with timing my meds, suddenly realising I’m starving, insanely thirsty, or desperately need to pee, too hot/cold, almost asleep when I get pins and needles because my head was on my arm, etc etc etc…

Oh yes, the sleep fun with ADHD! Insomnia is so familiar. If I stick with my "disordered" sleep pattern, I'm much better off. Sadly it's a dysfunction in the 9-5 world. Edit: I've tried all the sleep hygiene habits and the schedule always loses. I'm happiest if I go to sleep between 2 or 3 am and sleep 10 hours, then I feel awake and function better.

Amazing how accurate these videos are describing what I experience. When I was younger, and years before I ever heard of ADHD, I used to call it EEP - Evil Evening Persona. Wake up tired AF, swear I would go to bed early that night then when evening arrived, my mental energy would start surging and I would do anything except go to bed. 10pm to 2am has always been my favorite time of day, which is not compatible with getting enough sleep for school/work. Now, to get to sleep before midnight without meds, I need physical exhaustion. 2 x 45 min intense cardio sessions a day is good but doing a workout in the morning is difficult.

For me the problem isn't falling asleep, it's staying asleep. Melatonin can help, but it also makes me groggy sometimes. Even exercising to the point of physical exhaustion doesn't necessarily mean a good night's sleep for me. Sometimes it feels like I never really woke up at all until it's after dinner and then I can't sleep that night.

This is literally my life 😢. So glad I’m not alone.

This is exactly what I go through with my adhd. I was up until just past 3:30am lastnight - tired but wired! Fixated on something I want to buy and can't go to bed until I'm done researching it over and over again. It can be exhausting.

As someone who got diagnosed at 34 about two months ago, your ADHD videos have been incredible and describe me to a T. It's like watching a video about myself.

While these are great suggestions, it can be completely unfeasable. I have long had sleep problems very much like described in the video. In the past I have tried such techniques out of necessity (sleep routine, blue light blockers, calming things, etc.)... and it made everything worse. Why? Because when you add up work, commute, cooking, cleaning, and then having to add add another 1-2 more hours to make sure sleep works... I had no time to myself where I was enjoying myself. It was all in service to responsbilities. Joyless. Maintaining a sleep regimine sucked away the few hours I had free, and funneled them into understimulating boredome at the service of getting more sleep so I can work at a job. It becomes so demoralizing and makes my depression worse. The only thing that partially works, is allowing myself to sleep and wake when I want to.

It makes a lot of sense. I've always been a "night owl" but I also have issues falling asleep. Haven't been officially been diagnosed with ADHD but the symptoms I'm dealing with line up.

I remember around 30 years ago telling my psychiatrist that I thought I had delayed sleep phase, and showed her pages of written proof and studies to back it up. She just looked at me like I was an interesting specimen again.

After 50 years of struggling with this I see it's not a weakness in character. Thanks.

Holy crap. This video was like finally being handed an instruction manual for a complicated machine you've been just fumbling around with for decades. I feel like this is the kind of stuff that needs to be taught in an introductory psychology course.

I appreciate this information and am thankful for you making this readily available; but I think what annoys me about this discourse (which I have also gotten from my family, friends, and psychiatrist several times and have even been shamed for not having "good sleep hygiene") is that I do not want to sacrifice the IMMENSE creativity and productivity I have in that evening window, that I NEVER, EVER feel any other time of the day no matter how much I've "fixed" my sleep schedule. Even when I had a regular 9-5 and an organized bedtime routine, I would still feel like I was just coasting through the day in a half dream. But in the evening, I COME ALIVE. I access joy and excitement and love and all of the incredible things that make life even worth living. And when left to my devices, I naturally go to sleep around 3am, wake up at 10am, and am COMPLETELY ready and alert to take on the day. I've gotten to the point where I am looking for jobs that match my schedule rather than the other way around because I've accepted that it's absolutely ridiculous for others to expect me to function at their level in the structures that work for them but not for me.

After 40yrs I finally nailed waking using a sunrise alarm, 2 phones with multiple alarms & a lot of water before bed so I have to pee bad in the morning. Now I hope I can figure out going to bed & staying asleep.

I am most productive in the late hours when I should be asleep but I know if I don't try to sleep at a decent hour, the next few days will be really hard. ADHD on top of Schizophrenia and bipolar is personally quite hard to manage because of this sleep issue.

This works! And luckily I discovered I had more sleep problems because of it! If you've been told (like I was) that your imperfections are failures and your struggles are personality flaws, I'm sorry you were forced to feel that and I'm sending an internet hug to you right now. Sometimes people can do everything right and still not get the needed results, and that's because they need--and deserve--more help. You deserve help. What happened with me is that I'm ADHD and my psychiatrist was concerned about my sleep. The sleep specialist said I have a benign sleep function called delayed (something), where my body is just most comfortable going to bed at 12-1am and waking up later in the morning. I was using all the tips and tricks that were viable to my life, but I still slept 10 to 12 hours and woke up feeling unrested. All of these things in the video helped me get up earlier and go to bed earlier, but because they didn't improve my sleep (as they do for many people) I was frustrated about all these steps, and things to remember, and alarms, and etc etc that I just wanted to give up on it all. So, we did a sleep study. I am a young, average weight woman, and I have sleep apnea, which turns out to be much more common in younger, average wight people than commonly thought. I did everything right. I just didn't know I needed a little robot to give me mouth-to-mouth every night. I'm looking forward to getting better sleep soon!

I have ADHD, and I have struggled with insomnia and poor sleep for decades. During the 2020 quarantine (once it became apparent it was going to last for quite some time), I decided to let my body do whatever it wanted with my sleep schedule. I told myself I would go to bed when I felt like it, and wake up whenever my body woke me up - no sleep aids, and no alarm clocks. After only about a week's adjustment, my natural rhythm had me falling asleep at 3AM, and waking up at 11AM. That was 8 hours' worth of sleep a night without me having to force it, and it was the best-rested, most-productive I had been in my adult life at the time. My question is: is that truly a "misalignment?" Who got to decide that 9-5 is the best work schedule, or that businesses and educational facilities have to open in the morning and close in the evening? Yeah, maybe back in the days when we had no electricity and we had to operate with the rising and setting of the sun, that made sense, but we don't have those limitations now. My thought is that there are enough people like me - the "night owls" if you will - that there's no definitive, concrete reason why everyone in our society has to operate on the same schedule. The animal kingdom has its diurnal/nocturnal species. Why can't human beings choose their own schedules? Why can't we have restaurants and businesses that open at 6PM and close at 6AM? All I'm saying is, I can't help but wonder if people like me with ADHD don't necessarily need our sleep patterns (or other quirks) "fixed" - we just need socially acceptable ways to operate as our bodies and brains are naturally inclined to do.

This has been me my whole life. Tired asf at 3pm and as soon as it hits 9pm I’m wired and when I try to sleep I literally can’t stop moving and my brain won’t turn off

I have never felt so heard. This video was so spot on with my adhd and sleep! Also me: watching this video late at night learning about my adhd and sleep knowing I should be trying to get to sleep 😅

The only time in my life when I didn't feel groggy all the time was when I was a freelancer, and I woke up at whatever time my brain decided, no matter the time I went to bed. The rest of my life, since I started pre-school, has been a constant fight to get up in the morning and feel awake the rest of the day. "Try to meditate" or "do some exercise" is the general recommendation by doctors, but meditation just exacerbates the constant noise in my brain, and exercise makes me feel even more sleepy... It's so difficult to cope with society....

Finally!!!!! You explained my ENTIRE life!!😭🙏🏼 thank you . Now I just need a doctor to believe me to help me. I’ve haven’t been able to sleep more than 3 hrs of sleep a day. It’s killing me. My problem is falling asleep, not staying asleep. My brain will NOT shut off or up. 😢

That's what makes comorbid ADHD and bipolar so challenging. Good sleep is essential to manage episodes but quite hard to get because of all of the buzz.

This is mildly traumatic because my father would just increase the intensity of the yelling when I couldn't wake up in the morning for school. Why can't you wake up!? I wish I had known omg!

}becomes a routine like brushing your teeth" Dr Tracey is very optimistic!

I always say that my hours of operation are usually between 3pm and 2am. Once 3am comes around I am TIRED! and I can sleep like a baby but I don't get any rest bc I have to wake up early in the morning so all morning I am moody and I really cannot function all morning until 3pm when I get that sweet jolt of energy 😅 I love sleeping between 3am and 11am. They're the only times I get decent rest.

Circadian rhythms play a part in bipolar disorder. Now I know people with ADHD struggle with this, too! Thanks, doc!

Thank you 🙏🏼 Things to help sleep, Blue light blocking glasses 2 hours before bed, warm foot bath, meditation, music, tapping, 👍🏻Excercize during the day.

Thank you so much for making these ADHD videos ❤️. They have given me a better understanding of why I am the way I am and why I have the shortcomings I do. I have started passing these along to my Mom because she has it as well. Sleeping at night is definitely a struggle for me. I am going to try the method in the video, and hopefully I can eventually reset my circadian rhythm.

i have a chronic issue with waking up because of my adhd and depression, so here are some tips: i have my alarm at a specific time and a second alarm 5 minutes after to ensure i’m awake. i set the alarm sounds to be pleasant instead of accidentally traumatizing myself. i keep multiple alarms across my room so i have to walk around instead of remaining in bed. if i don’t feel ready to get up, i’m gentle with myself and listen to a meditation or podcast to give myself energy, and i make a 10 minute box in my morning routine dedicated to my wake up process. if i don’t wake up on time, i have an alarm 30 minutes later that alerts me that i am late. this keeps me disciplined because if i am late, then i have to spend half an hour walking straight to the bus station instead of taking the detour bus to it 20 minutes earlier. taking the bus to school keeps me accountable because i *have to* leave at a set time. (i also only take the bus to school because otherwise i’ll zone out and miss my stops). if you’re a student like me i also recommend starting your most fun class first, something to look forward to. i used to worry about taking a class that had previously started at my waking time before implementing these habits so i almost skipped the opportunity, but now i wake up with excitement to return to my study group in class. also setting yourself up with a few things off your plate the night before is helpful, like not having to rely on choosing your outfit the day of or finishing your homework when you can’t estimate how long these tasks will take you with accuracy. with adhd you have to work smarter, not harder :)

I am so happy to see there are comments on this video from ADHD people who do not feel this is helpful - at all. Thank you 👏 I immediately knew this provider didn’t fully understand (or care, as is, unfortunately, often the case with most psychiatrists) when she suggested the highly regulated sleep schedule and boiled it down to sleep hygiene/medication while largely disregarding the productivity and natural energy shift people with ADHD often experience (citing it as a form of social disregulation.) As if almost anyone who struggles with this can’t already talk, at length, about all the things they have tried to fit into a “normal” cycle quite literally since childhood. I watched this video intently and to me, it is clear this is a psychiatrist who is more concerned with making ADHD people fit into a post-industrial revolution mold than equipping them to exist despite it and empowering them with tools to combat and change the world around them. As if to rob us of the time we often feel (and objectively ARE) the most productive, creative, and energized in the name of social conformity and reducing the impact ADHD has on the neurotypical. For me, if she were my psychiatrist, after 34 years of living with ADHD and trying to fit the mold, this would be the last visit I ever had with her. I am very fortunate to have had excellent mental health providers in my life and one changed my life forever when he said (paraphrasing): there is not only nothing wrong with you, but rather studies are finding that many of our most artistic and brilliant-minded people are ADD/ADHD for a good reason - you are evolutionarily predisposed to a thought and living pattern that sets you apart and allows you to perceive the world differently than those around you; it is a gift and I will not assist in helping you squash it or fit society, but I will help you survive this stunted world despite it. That man changed my life and I hope everyone can experience something like that level and kind of transformative care at some point in their life. If you are watching this video and thinking this does not sound helpful or is just more of the same mentally-normative health care that you see spewed across academia and from the mouths of providers who just don’t get it, know this: I see you, I hear you, and good, compassionate, understanding providers DO exist. You are not broken, you do not have to “fit in”, this is not all there is - keep searching, you WILL eventually find a provider who actually “gets it”, usually because they have it themselves or loves someone who does, and it will change your life forever.

Thank you for this harrowingly accurate description of my sleep habits.

Why do people always say, "routine like brushing your teeth" when talking about ADHD? There is no such thing as routine when you have ADHD, that's the problem. Anything I do is either by the whim of my emotions or externally reinforced, like having to go to work. I never WANT to brush my teeth, and nothing is ever going to MAKE me, so I don't do it. And I honestly have no idea how to create the habit, because literally every suggestion ever made to me us entirely stonewalled by my executive dysfunction.

Dr. Marks, I hear the sleep support part, but I'm still wondering about the daytime part. I've struggled with this a lot, and making myself sleep doesn't seem to help with the daytime, I still seem to *only* get that natural "I'm awake and ready to do life! " feeling in the evening. Training to sleep earlier is kinda like throwing away my most productive hours, meds, or no meds. Do you have any insight on that daytime slog part - if it persists even with adequate sleep?

New research shows there are four different kinds of sleep patterns including circadian. As an intermittent sleeper I was excited to read new research. It changed how I feel about weird sleep patterns.

in UK I saw an NHS Psychiatrist if I perhaps had ADHD, he said "No you would be in prison". That's the level of treatment we get here. Years of treatment focused on A and D b y Psychiatrists, and CBT by Phsychologists who treated adults and weren't trained in ADHD and Dyspraxia as only kids get those - That is NHS problem.Dr Marks describes my life experience almost perfectly

I can tell Domic's animation style, glad he gets work for animation. other then just on his own channel making his own content

Hi Dr. Marks. I love this video, but was hoping you could do another one to talk about those of us with ADHD + Chronic fatigue + Excessive daytime sleepiness? One of the things I constantly feel guilty about is how I don’t have a normal amount of energy compared to neurotypical/non chronic illness folk and I really would like to hear your feedback on the category of us who live with ADHD and Excessive sleep issues. For further clarification: my labs are all normal and I have a healthy amount of Vitamin D & B12, my thyroid function is also normal and my psychiatrist and doctor and I have just chalked it up to this being a symptom of my ADHD. Would really love to hear any feedback from your point of view!

I think this is the first ADHD sleep video I've seen that actually offers up actionable solutions! Thank you so much for this! I'll definitely be trying out some of your suggestions

You’ve got millions LITERALLY millions of fans. I’m old now but I’m so glad I heard your channel before I died. I identify with everything you said. Thank YOU! I’m crying.

My chronic insomnia has existed for as long as I can remember. It was lights off and in bed at 7.30 when I was a child. Long before noisy bright modern life - I lay in bed in the quiet dark till around 5 am and then I fell asleep. I got woken at 7.30 - 8am to go to school. I spent my days in brain fog. That has been my lifelong routine. Sometimes I can get to sleep around 3 am. And sleep till 8 if there’s no heavy machinery etc burring up near my house. Ive tried every sleep medication. I tried hypnosis, and other psychological therapies. I stopped ADHD meds. Nothing I have ever tried has worked. I’m 73 now and feel more exhausted than ever I have severe circadian disorder I believe it is related to ADHD. What you had to say about ADHD made me feel angry and sad because for some of us it just doesn’t apply. Our brain won’t switch off. Ive lived with it all my life. It drives me to the brink of insanity. I get so exhausted and run down but still can’t sleep. My latest fix is as I can please myself with my time, due to my age and retirement, then I lie down whenever I feel sleepy. It could be 3 or 4 times in a 24 hour cycle. I get up and be busy when I’m awake. I just cannot tolerate laying in the dark for hours and hours waiting to go to sleep anymore. So I sleep an hour here, 3 hours there, sometimes 4 hours straight. I feel the most rested I ever have. Just know we don’t all fit into your neat assessment. Your analyses and recommendations don’t apply to all with ADHD. There are outliers, and our chronic severe insomnia makes our lives hell. So please don’t talk with assumptions. It only makes people with my condition frustrated and sad

OM! Thank you so much for your videos! I recently realized I had ADHD and have been so harsh on myself for so many years for being "different." Now I know Im not alone and there is a dx and tx for this. It's very comforting. Thanks again, @DrTracyMarks.

Ohhhhh thats why i cant sleep for shit

I feel like you’ve been a fly on my wall. Thank you for always making things so easy to understand

Watching this at 04:53. Was finally formally diagnosed with ADHD last week at 52. I cried. So much lost time and so many lost opportunities... yet so much achieved im proud of. The conflictions are huge, and tearing me apart. These videos are helping so much. Thank you...

I’m not ADHD but I’m like one. My serious problem is being more motivated and creative at late night when the world goes silence. my body and brain are tired, I’m able to sleep but I just don’t want to. In the end I don’t sleep enough nor get anything done.

me watching this at 4am knowing damn well I ain't gonna do anything differently >_>

Thank yoouu! It’s incredibly comforting to feel this seen and heard by a professional ♥️

Wow, that explains a lot for me throughout my life. Thank you Dr. Marks.

You explained my life again.

I can relate to most of these issues however the one that I've never had an issue with is waking up in the morning and I always felt since I was such a light sleeper/ restless sleeper that it was easy for me to pop up out of bed in the morning. Setting a firm bed time, keeping the lights low in the evening and not having a tv in the bedroom anymore has helped immensely.

I'm glad that you made this video and made this video at the right time.

Thank you so much Dr.Tracey, I always gain something helpful from your videos! love the animations in this one. 😊

I always loved being a night owl when I started elementary school but getting up early for school made me take so many mini naps in my classes. I still made it through that though! *whew* Now my 30s, staying up late with an "early" shift at 9:30am can make me fail at work. My new adult workaholic mentality for $$$ just for groceries has made going to sleep even more stressful so I've had to take melotonin and magnesium instead of going to sleep naturally at 2am like I used to for years 😅

My entire life is in this video, thank you so much! A couple of years ago I took a genetic test and it showed that I have a mutation in a gene regulating circadian rythms. But your descriptions shows that my biological clock is certainly affected by my ADHD either. Your hacks for sleep regulation are very helpful, and I derived most of them personally through my own experience. But the thing with warming feet is totally new to me, and I am certainly going to try this one. There is also one thing with managing my schedule that I suffer from for my whole life. This thing is being late all the time, everywhere, no matter how early I wake up. I have no idea how to handle this issue. It causes a bunch of troubles, and I feel guilty for being so irresponsible every time that I'm late. But I just can't stop being distracted from my morning routine by other activities. Is there anything that can help?

Thanks for bringing this up!

I’ve never heard someone explain my whole existence so well 🙌🏾

I've had these problems my whole life, and I've tried all the sleep hygiene tips and tricks. They work. For a while. They work for a few weeks while I'm really focused on it, or while I have an external motivator for it. They don't feel good. I don't feel good doing them. I don't feel good going to bed right when my mental energy starts to surge, and I keep thinking maybe it'll shift to an earlier time of day if I just stick to the schedule. It doesn't. I keep thinking that maybe it'll be easier to wake up, easier to fall asleep, easier to STAY asleep, if I stick to the schedule. Stick to the schedule. Stick to the schedule. Stick to the schedule. Stick to the schedule. Everybody, every time I ask, everywhere I go. Stick to the schedule. I can't stick to it longterm. I always lapse back to my natural rhythm--falling asleep later, waking up later. I sleep better when I do that. I sleep soundly, I feel well rested. I have creative time late at night and then I wake up late in the morning. I would be happy to live like that all the time. I would be so, so glad if I could just life my life a few hours later in the day than most people. But no. No, I have to force myself into a schedule that isn't natural and doesn't feel good for me, because otherwise I can't work. I can't go to the doctor, get to the bank, go to the post office, go to jury duty, anything. The world is built around a schedule that my body simply does not like, and I just have to cope with it. I wish videos like this would talk about that. It hurts to be told over and over again, stick to the schedule, without ever acknowledging that it can be hard. It can be unpleasant. It can feel unnatural and it can be difficult to keep up long term, and then when you break schedule by even half an hour, it all falls apart and you feel that shame and failure all over again. Sticking to the schedule works to keep your body in that rhythm, but it doesn't solve everything, and it still might not feel right. I don't know what else to do, aside from hope for a society of fellow night owls to pop up somewhere.

Good video. But if you're only suffering from a few days deficit of sleep. You're doing great. I feel most of us with this issue end up having decades-long deficits. And are basically maintaining while dealing with the normies.

This is a fantastic resource. Very practical and straightforward, thank you.

Thank you for explaining my whole life in your videos.

We have GAD with severe adhd. I sleep 5 hours. I’m not bi polar. Folks with ADHD needs naps. I have brain fog from never getting rest. I wake up with anxiety and am brain dead till 2 pm

This video came at the perfect time, thank youuuuu ❤ Ive always had problems with my sleep, and have had forever changing sleep patterns, but Im finally in a place in my life I really want to try and sleep like a normal person 😅 and I struggle with oversleeping too, and I feel like Im wasting my days But on the other hand, I feel like its very hard to get through a full day with an ADHD brain. I wonder if it would be any use to do a video on staying awake during the day for ADHD? For me, I find when there is nothing my brain is interested in doing, I will just sleep, because its too boring/frustrating being awake. I also find a nap helps me when I get overstimulated from going out, but then I might not sleep well that night. How do I cope with day-to-day life having ADHD? How do I cope with understimulation and overstimulation? Thank you for all your helpful videos Dr. Tracey ❤

This was such a great video, thank you for posting

Dr. Tracy Mark I just absolutely love your videos all the illustrations and everything you're saying is spot-on thank you so much for your

I feel like you have been looking in my window and studying Me. You described me to a Tee Dr.,Tracy. Thank for sharing your knowledge. I’m tired all the time. I have trouble falling asleep and sometimes staying asleep. I get up around 6 or 7. But I don’t feel “awake” until 11am-12pm. 💤😩

This is the video I’m going to share with everyone when they ask me why I don’t sleep like most people. Yep, this showcases my typical process. Thank you for the helpful tips

THANK you. Such great insight!! I think the will help! Keep up the great work!

Such a perfect video. You are the best.

The problem with all these relaxing things is that they're all so tedious.

5:36 1: Great Idea, I have the yellow light option on my phone but not on the other devices 2: I can't control which genre of music I'm gonna ("I want") listen so it may turn out exciting instead of relaxing 3: Meditation and relaxation techniques are waay too boring for my ADHD 4: Tapping, again it's too boring for my ADHD, the little dopamine "I have" is almost entirely on videogames 5: Meditating colouring, again, impossibly boring 6: Warm foot bath, amazing idea, can't do in summer tho 7: Exercise, great tip, I do like 2 months a year of intense exercise and 10 of nothing depending on the stress/anxiety inducing events of my life 8: Help

Love the animations! ❤

You described my sleep to a T!! I have all of those all of my life, since I was a young kid. Here it is 4am!! This is spot on!!

Thank you, Dr. Can you please do a video (if you haven't already) explaining how/why depression makes sleep hard to achieve?

Good, now how will I remember to do any of that again?😅

Hey! This video was recommended to me as I am trapped in this cycle of being tired but not tired. I have been hearing the same tips and tricks for over and over again trying to solve my sleep problem. I love your explanations and suggestions. It feels you give me a whole other perspective even tho I have heard some before. I just got my ADD diagnose as a grown up and this video felt so helpful! Thank you and good night!

These illustrations are amazing 😻

why domics in here? y’all collabing Dr. Tracey Marks?

Definitely what I have. It’s horrible! 😭

Another excellent, helpful video 🙏

This video was uploaded with perfect timing for me today! I woke up around 5, and after eating something I knew I couldn't sleep any more when I had to get up at 7. I got good advice and tips on a very recent topic, thank you very much ❤

Really disappointed with the focus on behaviour causing delayed sleep. It's common to have a proper disorder where we produce melatonin later or not at all, and not just a matter of setting a habit. Also disappointed in the tone taken towards meds - both for ADHD and for treating the sleep issues. Melatonin taken *correctly* for a disorder doesn't lose effectiveness. And ADHD meds *can* improve sleep quality, they obviously have the potential to make issues worse but it's not a given. There is too much potential for parents to watch this video and double down on blaming their kids for not trying to sleep soon enough, and reinforcing the idea that ADHD meds are bad. If you have good sleep hygiene and still can't sleep when you need to, you probably have a circadian rhythm disorder and need a sleep study. You can't train yourself out of a circadian rhythm disorder, and taking meds intermittently isn't the recommended way to treat one. No mention of light therapy either!

The 'business' of the animations detracts from the very useful information. A little overdone IMHO.

I'm up all night watching your interesting videos.

Literally the best video ever. My god, you said everything I’ve gone through my whole life, 46 years. I’ve spent 35 years going to dozens of doctors with no results, it’s ridiculous. But finally 4 years ago I finally received my miracle medications and they help, I’m so grateful to feel just 1% better but still don’t feel “normal”. There’s something missing and no one can figure it out. My mother has it and so did her mother, and mom mom actually started dementia in her late 50’s. It was horrible watching what she went thru, I’m trying to prevent that from happening to me & my mother. I wish you were my doctor

“You need to get more sleep” - you have no idea how infuriating this is to hear when you have ADHD with sleep phase disruption. Going to sleep and waking up requires gym/workout level of programmed behavior. That said, it’s a fun superpower to be able to stay up as long as one needs to without doing anything

Only people that watch this at 1am can like👍

I appreciate your videos so much. THANK YOU!

I loved the video and I loved that the animations are in the Dominics's style

Thank you, thank you, thank you! You have blessed me with your gift of teaching! You are so talented! You explain this disease in a clear, organized, understandable format! Thank you for taking the time to educate all of us who have, or will, listen to these videos! I FEEL comforted and encouraged when I listened to these videos! I'm not an outcast! I was dx ADHD w Anxiety, and EFD in my late 40's. As I have gotten older the anxiety, forgetfulness, loss of focus and learning new things have increased in intensity. I'm sixty now and have been on meds and have had three different ones, and different dosages. My doc is still adjusting my meds! Would love to hear any research/studies which are related to older adults! Thanks again!

Thank you for this video, I have struggled with sleep my entire life, it's affected jobs and my ability to function. It's nice to know it's a symptom of my adhd, it's not because I'm useless!

I love your knowledge and content and the way you communicate it covering large content in very punchy pragmatic entertaining videos. You also seem to read my mind and amswer my questions seconds after

I really appreciate the frequent switching up of the style throughout the video, like going from your face to AI drawings to title slides. Really helped me focus ❤