Dr. Micaela

My brain feels more functional and my executive function issues have been lessened.

It's not perfect by far, but I've been getting around eight hours for two weeks and I've just felt tired and had brain fog, etc.,

Today is not the level of functionality I want by far, but it's much better than previous days.

This always happens unless I've been sleep deprived for two or more days and doesn't work if I pull an all-nighter or get three hours of sleep.

Only at five to six hours.

If I keep the bad sleep up, I crash and feel terrible for the next day like normal.

Anyone here experience this?

All I can think of is that I'm using adrenaline to keep myself awake and that's acting as a substitute for dopamine, which I suspect I chronically lack.

not diagnosed.

Okay.

So I know this is such a hot topic because sleep is the bane of a lot of people's existences, right?

And not going to lie, just reading the subject header for this post triggered me so hard.

And the reason for that is that healthy sleep is

obnoxiously probably the most single, most important thing that anyone can do to protect their mental health.

Um, which to me as someone who has struggled with sleep my entire life.

And for somebody who in clinical practice, um, is some of the things that I see most in the folks that I work with, um, is obnoxious, right?

Like I hate the fact that I need healthy sleep to function well.

Now there is some research around this and, um, uh,

anecdotally, we all probably experienced this.

Okay.