Sleep Deprivation
April 12th, 2005High school is probably one of the roughest periods of life for a person with ADD or ADHD. It is when the amount of homework assigned each day rises sharply, to the point that it becomes difficult for most people and unmanageable for the ADD/ADHD sufferer.
I was so overwhelmed by homework that I became significantly sleep-deprived. Not out of stress, but out of desperation to finish each assignment. If I didn’t cut into my sleep, I would never finish my assignments and therefore never pass my classes. I was no perfectionist; I merely tried to earn passing grades in each class, because it was the best that I could do.
The sleep deprivation only made the ADD worse. The less I slept, the harder it became to concentrate. Sleep deprivation was really the last thing I needed for my ADD, and it made studying feel like torture.