My mom is obsessed w waking me up early

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And I hate it. She thinks I shouldn’t be “sleeping my life away” and says I need a reason to get up in the morning. Why? I am not productive in the morning, I am horribly groggy and miserable. I have a circadian rhythm disorder where my sleep phase is pushed way back, like several hours later than the average person. Thus forcing myself to try to go to bed early results in insomnia because I’m fighting my natural clock. Then I wake up sleep deprived. It ends up resulting in me becoming depressed, irritable, and if it’s bad enough can even aggravate my psychosis as well.

It’s absolutely miserable for me to get up in the morning. I’m not sleeping my life away, I get all my schoolwork done & I don’t even work until late afternoon, I just happen to be awake when she isn’t and sleeping when she is. It drives me nuts that she’s trying to force me to be a morning person. Anyone else have this problem with their parents?

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I’m sorry, Anna,

Sometimes living with parents can really suck.

Of course, she’s just trying to help,

But most obnoxious Mom stuff is usually is.

I lived with my parents again briefly a couple years ago and it was pretty brutal.

They treated me like a kid,

Because I am their kid.

They don’t know how to treat us any other way,

I think its just par for the course…

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I have that too. I usually get out of bed not before 2 ish. I sleep like 12 hours a day when I do sleep.

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My natural sleep schedule is from 4 am-1 pm. But I have tried to make myself go to sleep a couple hours earlier for the past several months in attempts to get more time to study during the day so I can relax at night. I still do not really naturally wake up until around 1 pm, so even if I sleep at 2 am and wake up at 11 9 hours later, I am still sleepy and fall back asleep until 1 pm and actually end up sleeping more than I would have if I would’ve just followed my normal schedule. It’s too confusing for my brain :weary:

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Brought a new alarm clock that has two alarms on it. So the Radio plays for two hours instead of one wakes me up just fine and a good way to start the day. I spent most of my days working nights and shift work so find it helps to reset my body clock. Getting as much sunlight as you can first thing helps two…Hope it helps.

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My mom is the same she always expects me to be doing ■■■■ like I’m superman.

She’s completely lost I rate. Thank God I can work else she would be on my case 24/7

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Ended up failing out of university and moving into the mechanical field. It’s always the blue collar ethos. You start early and you finish early. You do heaps of overtime and you wake early.

I still do that years later. I love getting up before anyone else. I don’t have the sleep disorder but it’s a nice time of day…I love getting up before the sunrise. To do that I sleep after dinner and end up going to bed like 7pm late. Damned zyprexa knocks me out!

We are all different and I’m just saying you do what works for you…but getting up early isn’t such a bad thing for some!