Struggles with delayed sleep phase syndromeįor most people, the problems start in puberty, where hormones and disturbed development of melatonin production can be one of the biological causes.
It can also be linked to depression or anxiety. Reasons for this might be long-term bad habits around sleep:Īll of that will cause your biological clock to go a little slower. If you have a delayed sleep phase disorder this means that your internal clock isn’t running properly. Your body contains an internal clock that tells you when to wake up and when to go to bed. The delay makes you wake up later and it often interferes with your work, school, or other social activities. In essence, it might be 5 am before you fall asleep. As a result, it's difficult to fall asleep at night because the mechanism in your brain releasing the hormones making you energetic gets activated a lot later at night than it should, causing you to stay up very late before you go to bed. Roughly 15% are struggling with it.Ĭircadian Rhythm disorder is a sleep disorder in which the cycle of sleep and wakefulness in your body clock is delayed, so your entire sleep phase has been shifted to a later time than desired. It can develop at any age but it mostly affects younger adults. What can you do, if you are struggling with delayed sleep phase syndrome or circadian rhythm disorder?ĭelayed sleep phase syndrome or delayed circadian rhythm is the most common circadian rhythm disorder.
This blog post was created by our Sleep Coach Eva Nyhagen.
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