Just to add a clinical perspective, what this article describes is called “sleep onset insomnia”. While not symptomatic of ADHD by itself, it seems this article is saying people with ADHD might be more likely to experience this. The reasons for insomnia can be numerous. And people without ADHD can experience sleep onset insomnia too! Especially people with anxiety… But as for me, I tend to have restless sleep with early morning awakening insomnia. My spoons are empty by night time and it’s easy to drift off, but once the light hits my eyelids I enter go-mode.
Also keep in mind that this article was published by ADDitudeMag which is a somewhat complicated (if not controversial?) source.
Spoon theory is a useful way of explaining how mental and physical energy is rationed each day, through the eyes of someone with chronic illnesses or disability.
To snippet from Wikipedia, emphasis mine:
The spoons helped Miserandino to show the way that people with chronic illness often start their days off with limited quantities of energy. The number of spoons represented how much energy she had to spend throughout the day.
As Miserandino’s friend stated the different tasks she completes throughout the day, Miserandino took away a spoon for each activity. She took spoon after spoon until her friend only had one spoon left. Her friend then stated that she was hungry, to which Miserandino replied that eating would use another spoon. If she were to cook, a spoon would be needed for cooking. She would have to select her next move wisely to conserve her energy for the rest of the night.
Just to add a clinical perspective, what this article describes is called “sleep onset insomnia”. While not symptomatic of ADHD by itself, it seems this article is saying people with ADHD might be more likely to experience this. The reasons for insomnia can be numerous. And people without ADHD can experience sleep onset insomnia too! Especially people with anxiety… But as for me, I tend to have restless sleep with early morning awakening insomnia. My spoons are empty by night time and it’s easy to drift off, but once the light hits my eyelids I enter go-mode.
Also keep in mind that this article was published by ADDitudeMag which is a somewhat complicated (if not controversial?) source.
Are you able to point me towards context for ADDitudeMag complicatedness? I wasn’t aware of any particular issues
Spoons?
Spoon theory is a useful way of explaining how mental and physical energy is rationed each day, through the eyes of someone with chronic illnesses or disability.
To snippet from Wikipedia, emphasis mine:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_theory