Hi guys,
My daughter (who is 14) was finally properly and fully diagnosed and is on the path to recovery! Yay!
That said, we are still dealing with MAJOR sleep issues, as we always have. Today is a great example. It's noon right now. I just woke her up. I let her sleep a little while because I know she didn't fall asleep until about 8am. Should I try to keep her up? That always seems to fail (as in I CANNOT keep her awake - even outside), or just backfire (she ends up STILL not sleeping that night, like last night). I will be gone for a couple of hours today, and I'm sure she will end up sleeping then. I've been trying to help her get her sleep schedule sorted out for her entire life... everything we do is on a schedule, really. There is structure, even though she is in online school. I'm tempted to try to keep her up long enough to get a couple of things done with her and then just let her sleep... I will be leaving in about an hour, and I know that's what she'll do while I'm gone anyway. We do her schoolwork between 9am-2pm. I leave for work at 1:30pm. She has a strong tendency to sleep while I'm at work, and then I come home and she is alert and often manic (many times, she's only sleeping half of my shift). She has become easier to wake since going in depakote, which is major progress for her. She still sleeps through alarms, though.
Any tips on flipping her schedule? Or obtaining one? She's got a WISE team I'm about to give keys to because she doesn't wake up to the doorbell, even with our gigantic dog barking at it (I have this same tendency - we do both wake up to imminent danger, just not normal things).