Normally, it would be 6:30pm/7pm until 4:30am. Nowadays, it's like 12am until 6am/7am with multiple awakenings.

I'm not okay with mine. I mean... it "works," I guess, but I'm often waking up and having to go straight into a video/phone conference for work.

I'm hoping at some point to go back to the 6:30pm/7pm sleep time. That's what's best for me.

[*Beth*]

My sleep is segmented. I go to bed around 9 because I'm exhausted. I awaken around midnight and stay up for about an hour. Go back to bed and sleep. Wake up around 4, stay up for an hour or so, go back to sleep. Awaken around 9a.m.. By mid-afternoon I'm falling asleep and have to lie down.

After the afternoon nap I'm up. Seems I would be not tired enough to sleep around 9, but I'm so tired I fall asleep right away.

I wish I could just sleep from 10p.m. to 9a.m. and stay up until 10p.m., when I go to bed again. But it just doesn't happen that way.

I'm okay with it. I usually fall asleep around 10:30 and wake up at 7 with a few quick wakenings during the night.

[Blue_Bird]

I fall asleep usually anywhere between 10-11pm and am up by 8, every day so I'm pretty happy with it and I think it contributes to my stability

sleep?

what is sleep

seriously, my sleep is more like " rest", and even the term rest is a bit too much to explain it.
I can't sleep during the day, I can barely sleep at night
I often don't get affected by it, I just try and survive best I can. if I sleep, whoohoo. if I don't, it's really not the end of the world

I've learned to live with my imsomnia. difficult but it works

I have often wondered what it's like to get a good sleep though, what it's like to actually lay their in bed in the morning feeling lazy. lol.

I don't really have that luxury. I mean I do, but in my case i'd be staring at the walls

[Sunflower123]

I’ve been going to bed around 11-12 because I can’t get to sleep and jolting awake between 2-4. I think a lot of it is the crisis we’re in because I don’t usually have sleeping problems. It’s making me negative, impatient and crabby though I work hard to hide it.

Great thread!

[downandlonely]

I usually go to bed between 7 and 8 pm. How well I sleep depends on if I take my trazodone. If I take it I can sleep through until 5 or 6 am. If not, I'm up around 2 or 3 am, am up for an hour, and then go back to sleep for a couple of hours. It definitely affects me. If I don't sleep enough I can't concentrate on work, reading, even on TV.

My sleep has varied these past four to six weeks. Prior to that, it was rather ideal.

As for the past four or five nights, I have been getting very tired very early. I've woken up briefly in the middle of the night, but then slept again until 7 am, or so. A few nights I fell asleep as early as 8 pm, but have since tried to make it until 9ish. The next time I speak with my psychiatrist, I'll ask if I can reduce the recent morning dose of Seroquel XR or even eliminate it. I've been frustrated by my increased appetite that started with the dose increase.

[Fuzzybear]

My sleeping schedule is quite ****ed up. I don't think it affects my mood currently as much as some other.... stuff..... does.